In March 2017, the AdC assessed the degree of competition between the airline companies offering regular flights on the Lisbon-Funchal route and conducted a preliminary assessment of the public allegations on the existence of a possible price coordination between the airline companies active on that route.
The AdC concluded that there was no evidence of price coordination, although this possibility cannot be ruled out, nor the possibility of AdC’s intervention whenever and insofar as it detects the existence of any practices restricting competition. The AdC highlighted some aspects that weaken the hypothesis of concerted behaviour, namely the differentiation in terms of the services offered by the two airline companies; the average prices of TAP and EasyJet do not present a substantially sequential and similar variation for the period under review; among other aspects.