'Take Another Plane' airlines?

Seriously, they are fine. Nice personnel, sometimes a bit lackadaisical on check in, and often running late. I don´t hesitate to take them, but I do keep my fingers crossed for connections.

The bigger problem is the luggae handling in Lisbon. They outsource it and our luggage was consistently lost. It seems better now though.

Lisbon is a small airport so it should be easy to transfer. I only flew into and out of Lisbon once but it was a good experience.

I recently had an option of transferring in Lisbon with TAP or in Frankfurt with Lufthansa and, upon the recommendation of a friend, chose Frankfurt and Lufthansa over TAP. I don't have an first-hand experience with TAP but that was the advice I was given.

We've flown TAP three times in the last year, Madrid-Lisbon, Madrid-Porto and Lisbon-Madrid without any problems. The are a member of the Star Alliance, so we get our mileage, and the service has been good. As noted, the Lisbon airport is small and easy to get around.

We've never flown internationally with them, but I do know they server some excellent wine.

We flew TAP a couple of weeks ago, from Lisbon to London. The flight was one-hour late, but I'd used United miles for our tickets and was surprised to find out we were in Business class and that entitled us to use the TAP airport lounge.

Wow-- what a great surprise, as we were needing to get lunch. This lounge is spectacular. Very nicely designed, LOTS of appetizer-sized food like open-faced shrimp sandwiches, lox sandwiches, proscuitto, etc. Plus every drink you can imagine: champagne, wine, beer, juices, waters, etc. Also custard tarts and other little desserts.

It was a huge treat.

The flight was fine. It left one-hour late, but I was wishing it would be delayed more, so we could luxuriate in the lounge with our wi-fi and our libations. haha