We're finding flights from the US cheapest on TAP airlines the cheapest right now. Reluctant to go for it until I get some input from fellow travelers. Anyone flown them? Would you do it again? TIA

Yup, it is the national carrier for Portugal. We had a great flight from London to Lisbon in Dec 2010 and would fly them again. Hubby loved the hotdogs that were served as the snack haha

I have flown them three times to Lisbon/return. I now remember that on one return we were lucky enough to fly the code share with US Airways on an airbus.
I don't consider myself an expert on planes nor am I very picky as long as the plane is safe.
That being said, I thought the planes were old, the food terrible.
Friends from Portugal tell me that TAP stands for:
TAKE ANOTHER PLANE.

Did we arrive on time? Yes.
Did we arrive safely? Yes.

But my advice is if you are flying to Lisbon from the East Coast consider SATA out of Boston. Not very well known here but those flights were much better than anything we have flown on TAP.

But only you can decide if the connections/price is worth it.

I assume you are going to Portugal or the Azores?

They fly regularly from Boston because there is a very large Portugese/Azorean/Cape Verdean population in MA and RI going to and from home/the Old Country.

I haven't flown them but I would expect them to be pretty much like any other Mediterranean (broadly speaking) airline like Alitalia or Iberia. Reviews confirm this. Some have great flights, some have terrible ones. Money or consistency? Only you know what matters most.

We use them when flying between Spain and Portugal. And yes, they code share with US Airways and United.

I had no qualms about flying TAP from London to Lisbon and return. Crew treated us kindly, planes were clean...and we landed both times right-side-up. What more can a traveler ask. You want pampering? Fly Singapore.

it's a market thing. Every once in a while a national European carrier has a change in a code share agreement with a US carrier or a change of equipment and then finds itself with some seats they need to "dump" on the market at a discount. No reason to think TAP is any better or worse because of this discount. If they have the least expensive seats, then I'd go for it.

Thank you so much for your info. Will be buying tickets in the next few days.