SATA Azores Airlines will resume international connections to North America starting July 1. Accordingly, the international connections include daily flights between Ponta Delgada and Boston and Ponta Delgada and Toronto. Other international flights starting July 1, include Praia (Cape Verde), and Frankfurt (Germany). Domestically, SATA Airlines is gradually resuming daily flights between Lisbon and Ponta Delgada; Porto […]
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Travel: SATA Airlines to resume flights to North America – Azores
Posted on 07 June 2020.
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COVID’19 Free! Azores listed “Best European Destination” 2020 – Portugal
Posted on 05 June 2020.
The Azores were listed “European Best Destination,” in the context of “Coronavirus Safest Destination,” among the safest travel destinations in Europe in 2020, the Government of the Azores confirmed Friday in a press release. The distinction is based on health security in the tourism sector and its related activities, the low number of COVID’19 cases, […]
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June 10th: National holiday scaled down to symbolic ceremony – Portugal
Posted on 03 June 2020.
The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced today his decision to consolidate the celebrations of the 10th of June, Portugal Day, to a symbolic ceremony at the Jerónimos Monastery, in Lisbon, with just eight invited guests, due to conditions resulting from the COVID’19 pandemic. “The alternative would have been to include the Armed […]
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Azores Day: Official public celebrations deferred – Ponta Delgada
Posted on 01 June 2020.
This year, public celebrations of the “Day of the Azores” were scaled down due to the restrictions resulting from the COVID’19 pandemic. Scheduled for June 1, the “Day of the Autonomous Region of the Azores” is a public holiday to honor the “affirmation of the identity of the Azorean people, their philosophy of life and […]
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Travel: TAP Air Portugal resuming flights to North America – Portugal
Posted on 29 May 2020.
Starting June 4, TAP Air Portugal has announced it is resuming flights between Portugal and the United States offering two flights per week between Lisbon and Newark. In addition, TAP has plans to expanding its gateways to Portugal to include weekly flights from Boston, Miami and Toronto in the near future. On July 1, TAP […]
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Travel: Tourists invited and emigrants welcome – Portugal
Posted on 28 May 2020.
Portugal is gradually opening its economy and social life, with some good news for those hoping to visit the country this summer. Portugal’s beaches will reopen to tourists on June 6, following data by the Ministry of Health revealing that the spread of the COVID’19 virus does not appear to have accelerated. Accordingly, Portugal will […]
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