TAP Air Portugal to expand airline’s Cascais Municipal Aerodrome training facility

TAP Air Portugal has signed an agreement with Cascais City Council to expand the airline’s training centre at Cascais Municipal Aerodrome, with a two-phase programme to encompass pilot, cabin crew and maintenance technician training facilities. The first phase of the development will see a new A320 simulator join the two existing on-site simulators (A320 and A330), with four further simulators to be installed in the second phase (depending on partnerships with third-parties). Dedicated training spaces for cabin crew and technicians will also be created. TAP President Luís Rodrigues explained: “Our training ecosystem here in Portugal has the opportunity to create a new center of excellence, instead of paying for expensive services abroad, and Cascais perfectly understood the importance of this opportunity”. Space will also be made available for maintenance of PGA’s (Portugália Airlines) Embraer 190/195 fleet, reinforcing the airline’s maintenance capacity.