Discover essential information, tips, and instructions for a smooth and safe trip with babies and children, including guidelines for unaccompanied minors.
Traveling with babies and children can be challenging, so planning your family trip in detail is important to ensure everyone's peace of mind. At TAP, we offer services and amenities specially designed for you and our youngest Customers, from booking tickets to the flight experience.
The following restrictions apply to a passenger (aged 18 or over) traveling with children and / or babies:
Seats are allocated automatically and free of charge at the time of booking, with Standard Area seats being allocated to adults and children with the same booking, regardless of the fare chosen. Whenever possible, and where there is availability, seats for adults will be allocated in the same row of seats as the child(ren), or in an adjacent row.
Maximum weight: 10 kg / 22 lbs.
Maximum dimensions: 55 x 40 x 25 cm / 22 x 16 x 10 in (height x length x width).
The number of pieces depends on the fare and flight destination.
Maximum weight: 23 kg / 50 lbs, in Economy Class, 32 kg / 70 lbs in Business Class.
Maximum dimensions: 158 cm / 62 in (height + length + width).
Maximum weight: 10 kg / 22 lbs.
Maximum dimensions: 55 x 40 x 25 cm / 22 x 16 x 10 in (height x length x width).
The number of pieces depends on the fare and flight destination.
Maximum weight: 23 kg / 50 lbs, in Economy Class, 32 kg / 70 lbs in Business Class.
Maximum dimensions: 158 cm / 62 in (height + length + width).
Infants under two years old
Hand baggage
Hold baggage
Children aged 2 to 11
Hand baggage
Hold baggage
You can request a crib of 22.4 x 75 x 34 cm / 8.8 in x 29 in x 13 in (height + length + width) at no additional cost and on flights operated only by TAP. The following conditions apply:
You can also request the transport of your approved car seat, in which case you will need to book a seat and pay the fare applicable for children over 2 years old. The following conditions apply:
There are assistance and comfort items that are not permitted on board. Check what you can and cannot carry on our planes.
We provide special meals for babies and children, but it must be requested in the Booking Management.
You can also carry your food in quantities appropriate for the duration of the trip, except for water, which you can request on board. You may be asked to taste the food when passing through Security Control and X-ray.
On board our planes we have animated films, series, and a music channel dedicated to children. On intercontinental flights, there are offers for children and kits for babies, and the little ones are entitled to a baptism certificate at the end of any trip.
We provide special meals for babies and children, but it must be requested in the Booking Management.
You can also carry your food in quantities appropriate for the duration of the trip, except for water, which you can request on board. You may be asked to taste the food when passing through Security Control and X-ray.
On board our planes we have animated films, series, and a music channel dedicated to children. On intercontinental flights, there are offers for children and kits for babies, and the little ones are entitled to a baptism certificate at the end of any trip.
Buy an extra bag for the aircraft's hold per person and travel with everything you need.
Prices for extra baggage may vary depending on the purchase channel*, how far in advance the purchase was made, the trip date and its origin and destination. Check the price of extra baggage applicable to your trip during the booking process or later through Manage your Booking. For transactions made outside of Europe with a different local currency, the service fee will be converted from the fixed USD amount to the local currency (except for Canada).
*Purchase channel: flyTAP - Manage your Booking or online Check-in - TAP kiosks and counters at the airport, TAP Contact Center and Travel Agencies.
Find out how your child can travel alone with TAP. Check all the conditions and the best solution, and rest assured. Our assistance for unaccompanied minors is personalized from boarding to the final destination. Count on us and all our care and attention.
The purchase of tickets for unaccompanied minors is not available online, as specific procedures are required.
To book a trip you must:
Seats are allocated automatically and free of charge at the time of booking, with seats in the Standard Area, being allocated, regardless of the fare chosen. If you wish to reserve a specific place in the queues of this designated Area, you must do so at the time of booking, through the Contact Center.
The same rules and conditions described above apply.
On the day of the flight
Upon arrival at destination
Economy (medium-haul flights): only in-flight sales service available. Economy and Business (long-haul flights): meal included in the ticket.
We also offer special meals, but you must request this in Booking Management.
On board our aircraft we have animated films, series and a music channel dedicated to children. On intercontinental flights there are offers for children.
Economy (medium-haul flights): only in-flight sales service available. Economy and Business (long-haul flights): meal included in the ticket.
We also offer special meals, but you must request this in Booking Management.
On board our aircraft we have animated films, series and a music channel dedicated to children. On intercontinental flights there are offers for children.
The movement of minors must comply with the rules and laws in force in each country (entry or exit):
Portugal Foreign minors born in Portugal
Minors in these conditions benefit from the same resident status as that granted to either of their parents;
To apply for a residence permit, either parent must submit an application within 6 months of the minor's birth registration.
Entry of minors into Portugal
To enter Portugal, foreigners under 18 years old must present a written travel authorization;
Unaccompanied foreign minors are only authorized to enter the country if they present this duly validated document or if a legal representative is waiting for them in Portugal.
Departure of minors from Portugal
Minors with Italian nationality
Minors with Spanish nationality
Minors with Brazilian nationality
Check the document from the National Council of Justice or its website, to find out everything you need for your child to travel within Brazil (domestic flights) or abroad.
Minor Authorization Document
Minor passengers of Brazilian nationality or dual nationality, not accompanied by one or both parents
TAP Air Portugal warns its Customers that the documentation to be presented by these passengers must comply with the National Council of Justice (CNJ) requirements.
Brazilian children and/or adolescents living outside the country, who may or may not have another nationality, and are passing through the country, unaccompanied by one or both parents, must hold a valid travel authorization in Brazil (CNJ's Resolution No. 131 of 05/26/2011) to return to their country of origin, which may be:
Authorization is not required if you present a Certificate of Residence Abroad issued in the last two years by a Brazilian consular office, as long as you are traveling with one of your parents. No other proof of residence will be accepted if it is not issued by the Brazilian Consulate.
For passengers living in Portugal
The Citizen Card is not accepted as proof of residence.
Unaccompanied minors on domestic flights in Brazil
According to Art.83. According to the Child and Adolescent Statute, no child or adolescent under the age of 16 (sixteen) may travel outside the district where they reside, unaccompanied by their parents or legal guardians, without express judicial authorization (as amended by Law No. 13.812 of 2019).
For this reason, for passengers up to 16 years old, coming from outside Brazil to be able to travel within Brazilian territory on domestic flights, express authorization from their parents or legal guardian. In the absence of these, judicial authorization is mandatory.
Additionally, the unaccompanied minor service (UMNR) is required, and this rule applies to all Brazilian passengers or those with dual nationality.In oder to be able to contract the unaccompanied minor service on a domestic flight, ticket must be issued separately from TAP ticket.