Douro River Cruise May 2022

[CUTTERSAM]

My question is about my flight.  This is the 3rd attempt for this cruise due to covid so I am really excited. I am booked on TAP airlines and plan to get in a day early into Porto and the ship overnights in Porto day one.  There has been so much bad press about TAP I am afraid to fly on them. In fact I have a safety Rez on Delta.  TAP canceling flights, losing luggage, changing flights w/o notice.  I hate to approach a holiday with trepidation. Has anyone flown TAP in recent months that can give me an honest opinion of them?  I hate to throw 1000.00 away but I don't want to be a nervous nut either. What do you think?  

 

Thank you!

[Gourmet Gal]

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[Squawkman]

We did a Douro cruise on Viking this past November using inexpensive Viking Air. Viking starts their cruise in Lisbon for 2 nights before busing up to the ship in Porto, so we flew direct from Newark to Lisbon going and had a shuttle flight from Porto to Lisbon followed by a direct flight again to Newark to get home. We loved TAP. Wonderful staff, best airline food, no issues. Our cruise was in between Delta and Omicron, so,I imagine there are more issues since the end of November. But I believe most airlines have been having issues in the past 2 months.