Air Europa vs TAP Air Portugal
TAP Air Portugal scores 8.5/10 against Air Europa at 8.3/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare.
By Jon Miksis · cabin data verified · fares for travel November 8–14, 2026
Best product each one flies
Scored on what can be verified. Service, food and ground recovery are absent deliberately: they need someone in the seat, and they live in the reviews rather than here.
One caveat on the Value line, stated rather than buried: Value is computed from business fares, and a carrier with too few of them does not get a Value score at all. Where you see a dash, we have fewer than three priced business routes for that airline and did not want to invent a figure from one or two — so its product score is the mean of three dimensions rather than four, and it is not directly comparable to a score built on hundreds of fares. The airlines with the most fares behind them are named on the business-class ranking.
Air Europa
787-9 (new cabin)
- Seat
- 8/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 7/10
- Product score
- 8.3/10
TAP Air Portugal
A330-900neo · flown by Jon
- Seat
- 8/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 8/10
- Product score
- 8.5/10
Dimension by dimension
Seat: level
8/10 on the 787-9 (new cabin) against 8/10 on the A330-900neo.
IFE: level
Screens, connectivity and power: 8/10 against 8/10.
Lounge & bags: level
What the fare includes before you board: 10/10 against 10/10.
Value: TAP Air Portugal
Median premium over the cheapest carrier on the same route: 7/10 against 8/10.
Where both were priced on the same dates
Every fare is November 8–14, 2026, so a difference between two rows is a difference between two airlines and nothing else. These are economy fares, while the cabin scores above describe the business product — read them as how each airline prices against its competitors, not as what its business seat costs.
| Route | Cabin | Air Europa | TAP Air Portugal | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JFK → MAD | economy | $968 | $530 | TAP Air Portugal by $438 |
| MIA → OPO | economy | $659 | $599 | TAP Air Portugal by $60 |
| MIA → LIS | economy | $731 | $628 | TAP Air Portugal by $103 |
| MIA → MAD | economy | $661 | $642 | TAP Air Portugal by $19 |
| MIA → VLC | economy | $723 | $678 | TAP Air Portugal by $45 |
| JFK → OPO | economy | $1048 | $694 | TAP Air Portugal by $354 |
| MIA → MXP | economy | $709 | $720 | Air Europa by $11 |
| MIA → VCE | economy | $711 | $759 | Air Europa by $48 |
| MIA → AMS | economy | $738 | $713 | TAP Air Portugal by $25 |
| MIA → FCO | economy | $721 | $722 | Air Europa by $1 |
| MIA → SVQ | economy | $723 | $808 | Air Europa by $85 |
| MIA → BCN | economy | $847 | $739 | TAP Air Portugal by $108 |
| JFK → VLC | economy | $1016 | $742 | TAP Air Portugal by $274 |
| MIA → LGW | economy | $790 | $841 | Air Europa by $51 |
| JFK → SVQ | economy | $1016 | $848 | TAP Air Portugal by $168 |
| MIA → FRA | business | $4572 | $3416 | TAP Air Portugal by $1156 |
| JFK → BCN | business | $3973 | $3496 | TAP Air Portugal by $477 |
| JFK → MAD | business | $3945 | $3590 | TAP Air Portugal by $355 |
| MIA → FCO | business | $4486 | $3629 | TAP Air Portugal by $857 |
| MIA → LGW | business | $4809 | $3695 | TAP Air Portugal by $1114 |
| JFK → VCE | business | $4076 | $3784 | TAP Air Portugal by $292 |
| MIA → BCN | business | $4423 | $3804 | TAP Air Portugal by $619 |
| JFK → MXP | business | $4074 | $3872 | TAP Air Portugal by $202 |
| JFK → VLC | business | $3993 | $3944 | TAP Air Portugal by $49 |
| JFK → AMS | business | $4048 | $3957 | TAP Air Portugal by $91 |
| JFK → OPO | business | $3967 | $4018 | Air Europa by $51 |
| JFK → LIS | business | $3975 | $4023 | Air Europa by $48 |
| MIA → MXP | business | $4474 | $3985 | TAP Air Portugal by $489 |
| JFK → SVQ | business | $3993 | $4254 | Air Europa by $261 |
| JFK → MUC | business | $4161 | $4765 | Air Europa by $604 |
| MIA → AMS | business | $4436 | $4195 | TAP Air Portugal by $241 |
| MIA → VLC | business | $4443 | $4208 | TAP Air Portugal by $235 |
| MIA → MAD | business | $4395 | $4294 | TAP Air Portugal by $101 |
| JFK → LGW | business | $4409 | $4697 | Air Europa by $288 |
| MIA → VCE | business | $4476 | $4426 | TAP Air Portugal by $50 |
| MIA → SVQ | business | $4443 | $4456 | Air Europa by $13 |
| MIA → OPO | business | $4467 | $5364 | Air Europa by $897 |
| MIA → LIS | business | $4475 | $4784 | Air Europa by $309 |
| MIA → ZRH | business | $4492 | $4573 | Air Europa by $81 |
| MIA → MUC | business | $4561 | $4857 | Air Europa by $296 |
What happens if the aircraft swaps
Both carriers are paying-the-same-fare-either-way propositions on some frames. The worst product each one flies:
Air Europa
787-9 (new cabin)
- Seat
- 8/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 7/10
- Product score
- 8.3/10
TAP Air Portugal
A321LR · flown by Jon
- Seat
- 5/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 8/10
- Product score
- 7.8/10
Air Europa: Older 787-9s and the 787-8 keep a 2-2-2 cabin. Reporting on whether those seats reach an aisle is contradictory, so they are flagged rather than scored.
TAP Air Portugal: Solo throne seats in the 1-1 rows; the 2-2 rows require stepping over a neighbor.
Common questions
- Is Air Europa or TAP Air Portugal better to Europe?
- TAP Air Portugal scores 8.5/10 against Air Europa at 8.3/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare. On the four dimensions we can verify, Air Europa wins 0 and TAP Air Portugal wins 1. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.
- Which is cheaper, Air Europa or TAP Air Portugal?
- On the 40 routes where both were priced for the same week (November 8–14, 2026), Air Europa was cheaper on 15 and TAP Air Portugal on 25. Every pair of fares is the same departure and return date in the same cabin, so the difference is the airline rather than the dates or the cabin.
- Does the aircraft change the answer?
- Yes. TAP Air Portugal scores 8/10 on the A330-900neo and 5/10 on the A321LR. Check the equipment on your date before deciding.
- Has Jon flown either of these?
- TAP Air Portugal, in business on a Europe route. Air Europa has not been flown, so nothing here claims firsthand experience of its cabin.
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