Social Commitment

TAP embraces communities and the world.

TAP Donate Miles Programme

Since 2007, TAP Donate Miles - Causes with Wings - has been helping those who need it most. The initiative allows our TAP Miles&Go Customers to donate miles to various non-governmental and non-profit organizations (NGOs) which are then convert into airline tickets. In order to benefit from the Program – which lasts for three years – the organizations must be our partners and their missions must be recognized and valued. Each organization can raise up to one million miles per year.

APOIAR, ORBIS and Sol Sem Fronteiras are currently the three beneficiaries of this TAP social responsibility initiative for the three-year period 2024-2026, remaining in the programme until the end of 2026.

In 2025, they will be joined by Leigos para o Desenvolvimento, Make-a-Wish and Refood, which will remain in the programme until the end of 2027.

Get to know the current partners of the TAP Donate Miles Programme, as well as the cause you can support:

Leigos para o Desenvolvimento

Leigos para o Desenvolvimento is a Catholic Non-Governmental Development Organization (NGDO) that has been working for almost 40 years in Portuguese-speaking African countries, promoting the integral and integrated development of people and communities to foster their empowerment and autonomy.

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Make-a-Wish

Make-A-Wish Portugal's mission is to make wishes that transform lives come true. Every day they bring moments of strength, joy and hope to children and young people, between 3 and 17 years old, who face serious, progressive, degenerative or malignant diseases. They deeply believe in the power of a fulfilled wish, because when a child sees their wish come true, they gain renewed strength to face the challenges of everyday life.

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Refood

Refood 4 Good – Associação is a Portuguese IPSS that mobilizes local communities, in Portugal and around the world, to transform food waste into nutrition. It empowers citizens to create new social, environmental, community and personal value in their own communities, offering this support at no cost to beneficiaries and generating enormous impact and benefit for the entire community.

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APOIAR

APOIAR promotes development projects in Africa, in the areas of nutrition, health, education and vocational training. Their mission is to help break the cycle of absolute poverty in Africa.

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ORBIS

ORBIS works in Development Cooperation in several Portuguese-speaking countries, especially in facilitating access to education, improving the quality of teaching, food reinforcement, medical assistance, vocational training and fair trade.

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Sol Sem Fronteiras

Sol Sem Fronteiras works to promote universal access to a quality education in projects aimed primarily at children and young people from disadvantaged rural areas, with a special focus on the PALOPs (Portuguese-Speaking African Countries).

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Volunteering

We always try to support good causes and encourage our employees to take part in them. Whether on a regular basis or in one-off initiatives, regardless of our field of activity, our goal is always to make a difference.

In 2024, as a partnership with the Maria Droste Foundation, Movimento Claro and Start.Social, we had 54 volunteers participating, and we carried out 5 sessions, which included the renovation of young people's housing spaces, cleaning woods and offering TAP Store gifts to children and young people from priority intervention neighbourhoods.

Campaigns and Donations

We believe it is by strengthening our values that our impact on and contribution to the development of society can be maximised, in total alignment with our business.

In 2024, in support of the neediest communities and the social organizations that help them daily, we donated more than 73 thousand itens of discontinued or surplus material from our operation.

Solidarity campaigns also reflect the Company's commitment to social causes. Throughout 2024 we supported the "Embracing Ukraine" and "Solidarity IRS" campaigns, the 6^thedition of Giving Tuesday Portugal, and the TAP Donate Miles special campaigns, in celebration of International Women's Day and Christmas.

"Embracing Ukraine"

In 2024, we continued to support organizations that provide humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people, through the transport of passengers and cargo on the Lisbon-Warsaw route. To apply for this TAP support, click here.

In total, we have reached 72 social organizations. This is a route that allows us to embrace dozens of entities and solidarity campaigns in a social commitment that we want to fly even higher in 2025.