TAP is a Portuguese airline market leader, founded in 1945. The airline is a member of the Star Alliance, the largest global alliance of airlines in the world. With its Hub in Lisbon - a privileged access platform to Europe Ð at the crossroad with other Continents, the Company currently flies to Africa, North and South America; a region in which TAP stands out as being the leading operational European transportation company to Brazil. Continuing a strategic direction whose priority is Client expectation satisfaction, TAP continuously seeks to provide its clients with the best and easiest solutions for their trips, continuously adding additional value to the product they offer. With this objective, the Company also establishes the best of partnerships, on land and in the air; offering, thus, an increased number of destinations served in code-share with similar companies, in addition to a diversified group of advantages and associated fringe benefits. TAP intends to turn itself into, ever more, a reference airline on the international scene, taking advantage of business opportunities of markets in which it competes and differentiating itself with its operational efficiency and quality of service. The Company aims to build, at every moment the best choice for its clientÕs trips, as well as to assure its Shareholders with the most adequate levels of profitability and its employees with the best conditions of professional development.