Source: TAP

  • The airline now flies the route five times a week with a modern A321LRneo.

TAP Air Portugal celebrates this month, the 75th anniversary of its first flight to the island of São Tomé. To celebrate the date, passengers were welcomed in celebration, both at the boarding gates of Humberto Delgado Airport and at São Tomé International Airport.

In Lisbon, passengers received chocolate cakes from São Tomé and a postcard with the image of the first flight with the number TP522.

The inaugural flight, in 1949, was piloted by Captain Canelhas, in a DC-3 Dakota, registration CS-TDE, which was one of the Company’s first aircraft.

The same aircraft also operated the famous Imperial Air Line, which connected Lisbon to Angola and Mozambique and carried 28 passengers, in a crossing with 12 stops and that lasted 15 days.

Seventy-five years after the first flight, TAP now makes the TP1527 connection between Lisbon and São Tomé, five times a week, with a modern A321LRneo with 168 seats, 16 of which are in business class, with seats that can be fully converted into a bed.

Each seat has a 16″ screen, which offers a variety of more than 120 movies, 170 music albums and more than 230 hours of television series.