- Air Portuguese Society, Ltd.) was the first airline of Portugal with scheduled international services.
[1] AP was created with the main objective of providing a regular air connection between Portugal, Morocco and Brazil.
Flights from Lisbon to Casablanca and Tangier started in 1934, followed by Lisbon-Brazil service in 1936.
There were also plans to establish routes between Lisbon, Madrid and Paris, between the Portuguese colonies of Guinea and Cape Verde and between the French Congo and the Portuguese colony of Angola, but the start of World War II didn't allow this.
During World War II, AP gained the importance of being the only company of a neutral country authorized to fly to a belligerent territory.