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a question for Trip airlines
Posted by: | CommentsWe have a simple and direct question for Brazilian airline Trip:
Is the airline interested at all in having foreign tourists as part of their customer base or would the airline rather have those tourists fly with its competitors?
Do you know what the photographs above have in common? They were taken at destinations served by the Brazilian airline Trip. No prices for guessing they are all very popular destinations among the foreign crowd.
The airline, however, does not allow foreigners to purchase tickets through its website. All potential customers are requested to supply a Brazilian Tax ID number (known as CPF).
As we don’t know what a foreign national not in posession of a CPF can do to overcome that obstacle, we’ve approached Trip several times. We’ve done so through its Twitter profile and directly by email using the contact form found at its website. Our friend and colleague at D Airfare, Rodrigo Purisch, author of the essential Aquela Passagem has also approached the company with the same question. Several months have gone by and we haven’t received a single reply.
Poor customer relations? Trip is not interested in flying foreign tourists? We don’t know. But the fact is, foreign tourists that would willingly fly with Trip end up choosing a competitor that allows them to purchase tickets from abroad.
It is a pity. At a slow but firm pace Trip has developed a substantial network, reaching destinations where no one else flies and offering a standard of service above that of the main Brazilian airlines. Maybe after this post the company gets in touch with D Airfare (contact details here) with an explanation. We promise we’ll spread the news.
Azul and Trip: new destinations
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Azul is already selling tickets for Maceió, flights beginning on 1 June. Azul is expanding its action to a destination abandoned recently by Webjet – arguing it wasn’t profitable. And from 4 June Maringá (Paraná) will receive four daily Azul flights from Campinas.
Trip is announcing a new daily flight Vitória - Ilheus - Salvador from today. And soon flights from Londrina to Rio de Janeiro, Cuiabá, Manaus and Foz do Iguaçu. The company is promising the flights for June. Trip is becoming more interesting by the day – a potential candidate for a commercial agreement with one of the main airlines. You can see the routes flown by Trip here.
Trip: new flights to Aracaju, Bonito, Lençóis and Petrolina
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Trip increases again the list of destinations it is flying to.
From 16 March it will fly from Salvador to Petrolina (Monday to Friday) and to Aracaju (daily flight). The latter continues to Recife and Natal.
From 2 April Trip will begin to operate two new routes. From Campo Grande to Bonito (Wednesdays and Sundays) and from Salvador to Lençóis (entrance door to the Chapada Diamantina), once a week, on Saturdays.
It seems Trip will continue to fly wherever the tourist wants to go. With an increasing flight network, it becomes an attractive potencial partner for a large airline (whether national or international).
Trip: new seasonal flights to Fernando de Noronha
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Brazilian airline Trip is adding a new daily frequency to its flights between Natal, Recife and Fernando de Noronha. The additional flight will operate during the high season, between 15 December and 15 March.
On top of that, Trip is mantaining its two weekly frequencies from Recife and Natal to Noronha, and its six other frequencies from Vitoria, Salvador and Natal to the same destination.
At Destination: Fernando de Noronha, from our Brazil Travel Blog, you will find practical travel information on Noronha. Funnily enough, the Brazilian high season is not the best period of the year to visit the archipelago (we recommend the period between August and October).
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videos: landing in Fernando de Noronha
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Original text in Portuguese: Trip: Novos Vôos Temporários para Fernando de Noronha
En español: Trip: nuevos vuelos de temporada a Fernando de Noronha
TRIP expanding its network
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A bit at a time Trip airlines are increasing their network and opening new routes of interest to those outside the Rio de Janeiro – São Paulo axe. Trip will soon fly from Vitoria to Salvador and from Salvador to Natal. It has also increased frequencies from Natal to Fernando de Noronha. Keep it up!
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Original text in Portuguese: TRIP: Ampliando a Malha
En español: la TRIP aumenta su red
the main Brazilian airlines
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In Brazil three companies concentrate the biggest share of the commercial aviation market. They are, in order of importance, Tam, Gol and Varig.
Gol owns Varig, and there are projects in the short term to begin code-share flights between the two companies. Tam has agreements with several international airlines and will shortly join the Star Alliance.
As well as the three companies mentioned above, you need to be aware of the existence of the following four companies:
- Azul, company owned by the founder of the U.S. Jet Blue. It has just began flying and promises a rapid expansion of its operations.
- Trip, the largest Brazilian regional company, with flights to several tourist destinations (the most popular of them being Fernando de Noronha)
- Webjet
- Avianca Brasil, former OceanAir
When it comes to searching for your airfares for domestic flights in Brazil, the companies mentioned in this post should be the starting point for your searches.
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