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Alitalia’s Rome-Rio de Janeiro launching on 1 July

With a slight delay over the dates announced originally (Alitalia announcing a new direct flight from Rome to Rio de Janeiro from June 2011), Alitalia‘s new flight from Rome to Rio de Janeiro has a launching date. From 1 July three weekly flights will link both cities. Subscribe to D Airfare by Email follow D […]

Air France with discounted fares to fly to Europe from Rio de Janeiro

Air France has promotional fares to fly from Rio de Janeiro to Europe. Fares start at 760 USD (taxes not included, tariff NRPRBR) to fly to Madrid and 780 USD to fly to other important European cities (among them Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Lisbon, London, Rome, Vienna and Zurich). The tariff allows for a free stop-over […]

Smiles promotion: fly in April and May using a reduced number of miles

Smiles, Gol / Varig’s frequent-flyer program, has just launched a promotion, valid from 16 to 31 March, allowing its members to issue domestic tickets using 4,000 miles (one way) and international tickets (the Caribbean excluded) using 6,000 miles. Flights must take place between April and May 2011. As usual Fernando de Noronha is excluded from […]

Copa: São Paulo – Lima for US$179

Panama’s airline Copa has promotional fares (not officially announced yet) to fly from Brazil to Peru with a stopover in Panama City. There are fares (LPRT30) from US$175 (about US$278 once the airport tax is added) departing from São Paulo. For departures from Rio de Janeiro or Belo Horizonte the fares are more expensive. Maximum […]

Iberia gets the go-ahead for its Barcelona-São Paulo flight

The Brazilian civil aviation authorities have given the final go-ahead to Iberia’s new Barcelona – São Paulo flight we had mentioned previously at Barcelona-São Paulo with Iberia starting in June. The flight, starting on 18 June, will have three weekly frequencies and will compete directly with Singapore Airlines (Singapore Airlines gets the final go-ahead). Something […]

Singapore Airlines gets the final go-ahead

We’ve paid quite a lot of attention here at D Airfare to the new route Singapore Airlines will be shortly operating from Barcelona to São Paulo (Barcelona – São Paulo with Singapore Airlines from March 2011, Singapore is already selling Barcelona – São Paulo with promotional fares) The Asian airline has been finally granted the […]

open skies agreement between Brazil and Costa Rica

An open skies agreement has just been signed between the civil aviation authorities of Brazil and Costa Rica. The agreement should produce no immediate results but allows for direct flights between both countries. Currently there are no air links between Brazil and Costa Rica. Subscribe to D Airfare by Email follow D Airfare on Twitter

Pluna studying a new direct flight to either Maringá or Londrina

Uruguayan airline Pluna, currently operating direct flights from Montevideo to Foz de Iguazú and Curitiba, is studying a third direct flight to the state of Paraná, which could have as its destination either Maringá or Londrina. Subscribe to D Airfare by Email follow D Airfare on Twitter

Lufthansa to return to Rio de Janeiro flying from Frankfurt

More Lufthansa news. A few days ago we mentioned the new Munich – São Paulo daily flight. A press release from the German airline announces that from the end of October the company will operate five weekly flights from Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro. An Airbus 340-300 will be used on the route. Lufthansa has […]

Argentina and Brazil negotiating new frequencies

It is being reported that the Argentinian and the Brazilian authorities are discussing a Brazilian proposal to increase the number of flights between both countries. The current agreement gives Brazil 133 monthly frequencies, all of them in use, and Argentina 124. The Brazilian Minister of Defence pointed out that as well as Gol and Tam […]