
(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on April 23, 2026 shows (TOP-BOTTOM) an Airbus A380-800 of German airline Lufthansa landing at Munich International Airport, Munich, on April 12, 2023, a TAP Air Portugal aircraft preparing to land at Humberto Delgado Airport in Lisbon on April 2, 2026 and an Embraer 190 F-HBLL aircraft of Air France-KLM group taking off from the tarmac of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on June 3, 2021. The Air France-KLM and Lufthansa groups have been selected for the next phase of TAP Air Portugal's privatization and are invited to submit binding offers, the Portuguese government announced on April 23, 2026 following a cabinet meeting. The two candidates for the privatization of TAP "will now be invited to move on to the binding offers phase," Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento stated during a press conference. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)




