TAP Air Portugal will have two new routes to the United States of America that will directly connect Lisbon to Los Angeles and Porto to Boston.

Flights between Lisbon and Los Angeles will start on 16th May 2025, and will operate on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays until 26th May, after which a fourth weekly frequency is added on Saturdays, and until 25th October.  Flights take off from Lisbon at 09:55 and arrive in Los Angeles at 14:40. Total flight time is 12 hours and 45 minutes. On the way back, flights depart Los Angeles at 16:40 and land at Humberto Delgado Airport at 12:00 the next day. The flight has a duration of 11 hours and 20 minutes. The route will be operated by Airbus A330-900 aircraft, with a capacity of 298 passengers.

“We are very excited to announce the new flights from Lisbon to Los Angeles and from Porto to Boston, as well as the weekly offer of a direct flight between Terceira and S. Francisco,” said Luís Rodrigues, President of TAP. “With these new routes, TAP further strengthens its privileged position in the transatlantic connection of Customers who want the best air travel between Europe, the Americas and Africa”.

Flights between Porto and Boston start on May 14 next year and are operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays until October 25.  They depart from Porto at 18:05 and arrive in Boston at 20:30, on a flight lasting seven hours and 25 minutes. In the opposite direction, flights depart Boston at 23:00 and land in Porto at 10:35 the next day, on a flight lasting six 6 hours and 35 minutes. The route is served by the modern Airbus A321-Long Range, with a capacity of 168 passengers.

Return fares from London to LA via Lisbon start from £499 and to Boston via Porto from £509, inclusive of all taxes and charges.

From 3rd June 2025, one of TAP’s weekly flights between Lisbon and San Francisco, on Tuesdays, will make a stopover on Terceira, thus allowing a new offer from the airline; a direct flight between the island of the Azores and California, to serve the large Azorean community residing there.

Currently, TAP flies from Lisbon to seven US airports in New York, Newark, Boston, Miami, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Chicago, and from Porto to Newark.