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Lufthansa adding an additional weekly flight to its Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro flight

Lufthansa adding an additional weekly flight to its Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro flight

Things are surely going pretty well on Lufthansa’s new Frankfurt – Rio de Janeiro frequency. Only a couple of months after launching the route the airline announces a new weekly frequency, making it a total of six weekly flights between both destinations. The new frequency will start operating on 26 March. As well as the [...]

January 16, 2012 More
Lan forced to rescheduled flights from Buenos Aires to São Paulo

Lan forced to rescheduled flights from Buenos Aires to São Paulo

Argentina’s airport authorities removed the authorization Lan Argentina had to fly from the Aeroparque airport in downtown Buenos Aires to Brazil. Two daily flights were specifically unauthorized, those going to (and returning from) São Paulo. Now Lan Argentina is rescheduling those flights, numbers LA4540/LA4541 y LA4544/4545. On a release on its website the airline is [...]

January 12, 2012 More
Delta intends to increase its presence in Brazil

Delta intends to increase its presence in Brazil

Delta Airlines has just turned its Atlanta to Brasilia into a daily flight and has also increased the frequency of its Detroit – São Paulo. This move, coupled with the incorporation of larger aircraft to the routes has allowed the airline to increase its presence in Brazil. For 2012, as registered by Panrotas, the company [...]

January 2, 2012 More
new frequencies for Iberia’s Madrid to Rio de Janeiro flight?

new frequencies for Iberia’s Madrid to Rio de Janeiro flight?

We are told that Iberia is contemplating new frequencies between Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. On the news item, in Portuguese, Iberia’s sales manager declares 2011 was an excellent year for the company. Fragile memory, I would say, as it was only a few weeks ago that Iberia cancelled its Madrid to Fortaleza and Recife [...]

December 12, 2011 More
Gol’s Rosario to Porto Alegre flight to become daily

Gol’s Rosario to Porto Alegre flight to become daily

Brazilian airline Gol plans to turn its three times a week flight from Rosario in Argentina to Porto Alegre into a daily flight. The change will coincide with the summer holiday season in the southern hemisphere and the daily flight will operate from 1 December 2011 till 3 April 2012. Did you like this? Share [...]

November 11, 2011 More
Aruba negotiating direct flights from Brazil

Aruba negotiating direct flights from Brazil

Aruba’s tourism authorities are negotiating with the airlines Gol and Avianca the setting up of one or several new direct flights from Brazil to the Caribbean island. As usual, if those negotiatings bring about any new flights we will let you know promptly here at D Airfare. Did you like this? Share it:

October 7, 2011 More
agreement between Gol and Aerolíneas Argentinas

agreement between Gol and Aerolíneas Argentinas

Brazil’s Gol and Argentina’s Aerolíneas Argentinas have just reached an agreement allowing miles accrued flying with one airline to be deposited in the frequent flyer program of the other company. The agreement will also allow for domestic flights in Argentina to be issued with a Gol code and domestic flights in Brazil with an Aerolíneas [...]

September 28, 2011 More
Pluna adds a second daily flight to its Montevideo-Campinas route

Pluna adds a second daily flight to its Montevideo-Campinas route

On 27 October Uruguay’s airline Pluna will add a second daily flight to its Montevideo to Campinas route (the only exception will be Fridays when there will only be one daily flight). The flight lasts approximately three hours. Campinas is the main hub of Brazilian airline Azul, offering connections to a score of tourists destinations [...]

September 27, 2011 More
the domestic aviation market, figures for August 2011

the domestic aviation market, figures for August 2011

From time to time we like to have a look at the figures published on a regular basis detailing the composition of the domestic aviation market. According to the official body ANAC, these are the airlines dominating the domestic market in August 2011: Gol, 38.84% of market share Tam, 38.37% of market share Azul, 9.27% [...]

September 23, 2011 More
Emirates’ A380 gets permission to fly to Brazil

Emirates’ A380 gets permission to fly to Brazil

Infraero, the Brazilian airport authority, would have given the go ahead to Emirates’ request to bring to Brazil one of its Airbus A-380. The largest passenger aircraft in the world would arrive in Guarulhos airport in São Paulo at the end of the year. The only remaining issue is the time of the flight, as [...]

September 16, 2011 More