TAP Air Portugal A330 Madeira

Due to the increase of the passengers at Madeira, for the new year's fireworks and also students going back to Lisbon, TAP Air Portugal added some A330 service to Madeira. I was lucky enough to fly for the first time on an A330, CS-TOF, on the 3rd of January. Here's CS-TOK, departing from Madeira's airport runway 23 with the very last sunrays of that day.

Airbus A330-223, CS-TOK, TAP Air Portugal

Welcome Home... And Goodbye

Today Lisbon welcomed the newest addition to TAP Air Portugal fleet, CS-TJK arriving from XFW. Saddly, we also said goodbye to the oldest A330-200, CS-TOH, which served as a prototype aircraft for Airbus Industries, flying with both the GE CF6-80 and RR Trent 700, and then, when it went to Austrian Airlines, converted to A330-223 with PW4000. While flying for Austrian, it had been painted with Star Alliance paint scheme, and with TAP it stayed always with the Star Alliance corporate livery. Today, it departed to Lleida-Alguaire Aiport, in Spain, for storage, and most likely, scrapping. CS-TOH was also the first A330 I photographed earlier in 2013.

Airbus A330-223, CS-TOH, TAP Air Portugal (Star Alliance c/s)

Airbus A321-251N, CS-TJK, TAP Air Portugal (Delivery Flight XFW-LIS)

TAP Retro & Stopover

Las week I managed to photograph both special liveries from TAP departing Lisbon.

Airbus A330-343, CS-TOW, TAP Air Portugal (Stopover c/s)

Airbus A330-343, CS-TOV, TAP Air Portugal (Retro c/s)

Portugal Stopover

Back to September I finally got the chance to spot TAP Air Portugal's second special livery, ''Portugal Stopover'', which promotes the company's program with the same name. It allows travellers from long haul flights and passengers with their final destination being Madeira or Azores archipelagos or Algarve, with connecting flights to others destinations within Europe to spend up to 5 nights in Lisbon or Porto, before continuing their journey.

TAP Air Portugal has recently been awarded with the prize Digital Communication Awards 2017 for this amazing initiative.

Airbus A330-343, CS-TOW, TAP Air Portugal (Portugal Stopover c/s)

Interesting detail of the golf ball and the ''O'' in Portugal

The right side, with different portuguese icon's

TAP Retro Low Pass

Back to June, TAP Portugal presented us with the very first retro livery in the history of the airline. To celebrate it, a presentation flight between Lisbon to Oporto, and back to Lisbon took place, in which it did a low pass both over Lisbon Airport, and Oporto Airport.

Airbus A330-343, CS-TOV, TAP Portugal (Retro c/s)

Turkish Retro

Last week Lisbon received some A330 from Turkish. One of these flights was operated with an A330-200, which ended up by being TC-JNC, retro livery.

Airbus A330-203, TC-JNC, Turkish Airlines (Retro c/s)

Nação Azul

A bunch of photos from October, the first time I photographed Azul's special livery, known as ''Bandeirão''.

Airbus A330-243, PR-AIV, AZUL Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras (''Nação Azul'' special c/s)