Difficult times: A TAP Air Portugal plane is seen at Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon. TAP asked for state aid in April after suspending almost all of its 2,500 weekly flights at the height of the coronavirus crisis. — AFP
LISBON: Portugal may have to provide more than the 500 million euros (US$606mil) it budgeted for ailing airline TAP this year due to the worsening Covid-19 pandemic, its finance minister said.
Asked how much more the Portuguese government expects to spend on TAP this year, Joao Leao told Jornal de Negocios: “That is still being analysed”.
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