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Air Europa announces return to Salvador

Spanish airline Air Europa is announcing the return of its flights from Madrid to Salvador from 1 November 2009. The company is promising three weekly flights between Europe and Brazil. Air Europa stopped flying to Brazil in March. Let’s hope the announcement is confirmed and doesn’t turn into a saga similar to the Air China […]

fare deals with Tap to Europe from September

Tap is offering flight deals to Europe (prices quoted exclude taxes). Tariffs on its executive class to Madrid from 2,200 USD departing frmo Brasilia. Passengers flying on Tap/Executive win a night on a 5-star hotel in Lisbon, transfer from the airport and attendance to a show at the Estoril casino. In the economic class, departing […]

Swiss and Lufthansa with excellent fares until the end of August

Swiss and Lufthansa have excellent deals to Europe. There are tariffs (taxes excluded) for departures from São Paulo and Río de Janeiro from 695 USD to several destinations including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Florence, Frankfurt, London and Venice; from 726 USD to Vienna and from 835 USD to Istambul. Purchases until 31 July 2009. Return flight […]

Iberia: 2 for the price of 1 on its executive class

Purchasing an executive class ticket with Iberia you win another one for free for your companion. Tariffs (IBR1CN) from (taxes excluded) 2,194 USD to Lisbon; 2,424 USD to Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Rome and Zurich; 2,546 USD to Vienna; 2,762 USD to Athens; 2,890 USD to Istanbul. Sales: until 31 July 2009 for outgoing […]

Mexicana flight deals

With Mexicana‘s latest promotion the second passenger flies for free. The problem is that the promotion only applies to the most expensive tarifss, costing (prices do not include taxes) 1,100 USD to the US, 1,400 USD to Mexico or 1,500 to Canada. If you search you’ll find V class tariffs (VL2SV) from 566 USD to […]

how go to from São Paulo to Viracopos airport in Campinas

Viracopos airport in Campinas is increasingly becoming a workable alternative to the congested airports of Guarulhos and Congonhas in the city of São Paulo. When low-cost airline Azul decided to establish its hub in Viracopos it gave the airport the final push it needed. —————- Azul passengers Azul passengers can use for free two bus […]

new Pluna flights

Uruguayan airline Pluna will be flying 4 times a week from Porto Alegre to Montevideo from 2 August. That route should have a daily flight from September. If you like Pluna, it is worth keeping an eye on its Outlet Pluna, from time to time it has excellent deals – that unfortunately are rendered uninteresting […]

airport tax: how much

At this blog post airport tax we saw that you will pay your Brazilian airport taxes the moment you purchase your ticket – you won’t find counters at the Brazilian airports for the payment of airport taxes. Infraero is responsible for the taxes and has a leaflet containing details of the amounts paid. Category 1 […]

agreement between TAM and BMI

Airlines Tam and Bmi have now an agreement to operate code-share flights to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, Manchester in England, Belfast in Northern Ireland and Dublin in Ireland. The agreement allows passengers to fly from Guarulhos international airport in São Paulo to London Heathrow with Tam and take a connecting flight with Bmi […]

wi-fi lost somewhere along the way

Third time we mention the topic. Infraero promised free internet for December 2008 (Brazilian airports to offer free wi-fi). Promise broken. Then it promised free wi-fi for June 2009 (free wi-fi at the airports, for real this time?). Promised broken again. We were at Guarulhos international airport this weekend and not only was the wi-fi […]