5 Exciting Airline Routes Starting Summer 2019

As summer air travel is nearly upon us, I thought I’d list out a few of the new routes I am most excited about. The news for each hit the press months ago, but I figured a recap of what is coming would be good. Given that I live in northern California, the focus is a bit skewed to the West Coast.

TAP San Francisco to Lisbon

in a surprising addition, Portugal’s TAP is beginning service to SFO from their capital city. The route will be operated by one of their A330-900neo aircraft, a much more fuel efficient version of the tried-and-true Airbus jet.

Portugal is a current travel hotspot, so this route does make sense in some ways. I hope it is profitable so TAP will keep it. Given the fare sales we see with TAP,…