Manaus, Brazil: €1,333/£1,111 TAP Business Class from London (w/ Lisbon Stopover)

Star Alliance member TAP Air Portugal is now serving the Amazonas city of Manaus with a direct flight from Lisbon (and a stop in Belém). If you are adding two nights in Lisbon to your itinerary, you can score tickets in business class for as little as €1,333 (~£1,128) on TAP’s website or £1,111 (~€1,313) through online travel agencies. That’s more than €300 cheaper than the regular roundtrip fare of €1,650 (~£1,397).

You can use our Go2 tool to proceed to either Air Portugal’s website or kayak to compare prices. These flights are available from January 20, 2025, through March 2025.

Flights from London to Lisbon are operated by TAP’s A320 family. Seating in business class, you will enjoy the usual 3-3 seating pattern, but with an empty middle seat and better catering. Flights from Lisbon to Manaus are Airbus A321LR services. These planes feature lie-flat-seats in an alternating 2-2 and 1-1 pattern in business class. You can find a review of the product here. The flights to Manaus have a refueling stop in Belém both ways.

Search & Book

According to the fare rules, tickets are on sale until July 9, 2024 for travel before March 2025. There is no minimum stay.

To find these flights, we recommend searching the €1,650 roundtrip fares on Google Flights. You can easily find them with the tools preview calendar.

After finding these flights, you can open up the tools multistop search. There, you need to search for the following flights:

• London LHR – Lisbon LIS on the original outbound date
• Lisbon LIS – Manaus MAO between two and five days after the outbound
• Manaus MAO – London LHR on the original inbound date

If prices are €200 cheaper than the roundtrip dates, you can enter these fares on TAP’s website or kayak to score the cheap tickets. Our Go2 browser plugin is a convenient shortcut for doing that.

Why is booking with an airline better than with an online travel agency?

More often than not, online travel agencies offer lower fares than airlines do. We still recommend booking with the airlines directly. There are two main reasons for that:

Better Customer Service
In case any problems like delays, cancellations or missed connections arise, you can communicate directly with the airline. The airline has to take care of you because you have a contract with them.

If a travel agency issues your ticket, you may have to reach out to them first. You also depend on your OTA to forward information like flight changes instead of receiving them directly from the airline. In many cases, you may get a prime exhibition of responsibility shifting rather than problem-solving.

This especially applies to premium tickets. You don’t want to spend more than €1,000 to wind up with some budget OTA’s telephone hotline in case anything goes wrong.

Baggage and Other Fees
Economy fares not including hold luggage are industry standard by now. In most cases, travel agencies charge much higher baggage fees than the airlines themselves. If bags are not included in your fare, airlines are often the cheaper alternative.

This also applies to other things like food services, insurances or priority treatment. In almost all cases, you pay less for additional amenities when booking on the airlines’ website.

Miles & Points

TAP issues tickets for all flight segments in booking class J. Star Alliance frequent flyers can earn the following miles and points:

Destination

Information & Tips for Brazil

Brazil is probably the country in South America that is most frequented by tourists. Whether it’s the carnival or the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro or touring the Amazon, visitors will get their money’s worth here.

Traditionally, flights to South America and Brazil from Europe are quite expensive, but since a few years, there are increasingly cheap offers, especially with Iberia and TAP.

Best Time to Visit

Brazil is a vast country – so there is no such thing as an overall best travel time. It all depends on what you want to see. It is best to visit the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo autumn and spring while the dry season fort the rainforest is from May to September.

Entry & Visa

EU citizens do not require a visa for stays of up to 90 days and can enter with a passport only. Note that, similar to the USA, that after your first stop in Brazil your luggage must be collected and brought through customs. Calculate accordingly when booking a connecting flight.

Finding the Best eSIM Plan

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