TAP Portugal continues to expand its network in Africa with confirmation that it will inaugurate a four times weekly service between Lisbon and the Ghanaian capital Accra. Earlier this year the airline revealed plans to introduce a three times link to Bamako, Mali, the host of this year’s Routes Africa regional event, from June 5. The new service will be introduced from July 2 and will be operated using an Airbus A320.

The Portuguese capital will be the sixth European city to have direct links to Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. TAP’s Star Alliance partners Brussels Airlines and Lufthansa offer links from Brussels and Frankfurt, Alitalia has flights from Rome, KLM from Amsterdam, while British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways both serve the facility from London. Approximately 549,000 O&D passengers travelled between Ghana and Europe in the past year, an 8.0% growth on the previous 12 month period.

Schedule:

TP261 LIS1750 – 2155ACC 320 x357
TP262 ACC2345 – 0555+1LIS 320 x357

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.