Re: Is LEVEL replacing Vueling?

rlwynn wrote:

First of all a V in German is an F. So they would be pronouncing wrong right off the bat.

Re: PSA Cancelations

Suggest title change to "PSA Airlines". It can be confused with Pisa Airport (PSA).

Re: What airliner is this?

It's definetly Avianca. Since the OP gave absolutely no information I did some digging via reverse image searches. The picture was taken on Jan 16, 2018 at 20:57. It relates to locating a murder suspect and there is a 25,000 Euro reward for information leading to an arrest. https://translate.google....

Re: What Is The Real Difference Among Full Service, LCC and ULCC Carriers?

zakuivcustom wrote:

IIRC Gol doesn't even have a "low cost" base anymore

Market on HAV-CUN route

Hi all,

I'm thinking about traveling from Riviera Maya to Cuba on late August.
While searching for flights I was surpised to see 5 flights daily non-stop each way linking CUN to HAV operated by AM, CU and 4O.

What is the main traffic on this route? Is is mainly leisure (like myself) and VFR?

Re: DY to serve Cayenne (French Guiana)

More news on this. Problem is they want to operate the flights during nightime and CAY currently has a curfew from 9pm to 7am due to the lack of traffic controlers. For this exact same reason, PY has annouced that they will drop CAY from June 1st. It shouldn't be a problem for PY. Their scheduled o...

Re: How far out of the way will people connect?

winGl3t wrote:

Flew GRU-DOH-BCN-DOH-BCN, MEX-JFK-GRU and AKL-SYD-EZE-GRU to take advantage of cheap fares.
Many Brazilians fly everyday from Brazil to Mexico, Canada, DTW/DFW/NYC/IAH to Reach Florida.

Believe the more VFR and/or underserved a market is, the more people are willing to make weird connections

Re: How far out of the way will people connect?

Flew GRU-DOH-BCN-DOH-BCN and AKL-SYD-EZE-GRU to take advantage of cheap fares.
Many Brazilians fly everyday from Brazil to Mexico, Canada, DTW/DFW/NYC/IAH to Reach Florida.

Believe the more VFR and/or underserved a market is, the more people are willing to make weird connections

Re: Delta to serve Mumbai nonstop in 2019

Wish we could see both JFK-BOM and SEA-BOM to cater all of the country, east and West of Mississippi. Very unlikely, though. My 2 cents are on JFK-BOM with 77L

Re: US-Brazil open skies agreement finally approved

I just flew UA from EWR to SDU, the connection at GRU is truly exhausting. GRU is a giant, confusing airport that is poorly signed. I wish UA would restore the GIG tag. At least you wouldn’t have to leave the new Terminal and perhaps gain access to the new Star Alliance Lounge for a rest or shower....

Re: Air Tahiti Nui reveal brand refresh

Maybe because smaller airlines do not have global reach they can show more proudly their roots and origins through their liveries to stand out on the crowd!
Well done Air Tahiti Nui (also love Fiji and Hawaiian).

Re: Why is there no ADD-IST service by ETH?

TK already offers vast non stop options from IST to all over Africa, overflying ET's ADD hub. Not sure they would be interesting in sharing their profits for virtually the same costumers.
They could cooperate on a handful of secondary destinatios unique to ET in Africa or TK in Europe, though.

Re: OAG Changes 5/20/2018:AS Drops 5 Routes;DL Adds JFKSNA;UA Adds ORDPNS, Drops ORDYQB

Azul is suspending 1 daily flight from Brazil (REC/BEL/VCP) to Florida (FLL/MCO) from September to November.
It seems Brazillans will be travelling less abroad during low sason as USDxBRL currency exchange is getting expensive for Brazilians one more time.

Re: Busiest airports without full length taxiways

I guess Porto, Portugal (OPO), must be on TOP 3: +10,7 million passengers in 2017. Quite a few busy airports in Brazil too: Porto Alegre, Brazil (POA): +8 million passengers Curitiba, Brazil (CWB): +7,2 million passengers Fortaleza, Brazil (FOR): +5,7 million passengers Florianópolis, Brazil (FLN): ...

Re: Plane down near HAV

According to FR24 CU972 is a flight with service from HAV to HOG on a 737 (Blue Panorama's?)
Other CU flights are being shown as AT7 and 320

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Re: Plane down near HAV

geardown wrote:

CNN says the plane was going to GCM (Guyana). Could it be Cayman Airways flight KX833 ?

Re: Possible new routes of LATAM Brazil in Europe

GRU-DUB could work with IAG JV, but it's low yielding and has little demand outside Brazil, not contribuiting so much for feeding their hub. GRU-GVA could be another possibility for the next 5 years. No non-stop competition, Decent demand from Brazil, Argentina and Chile, no dominant carrier for swi...

Re: BOG-ORD on AV finally launches

With oil industry growing back IAH would be a good addition to conect many TX HQ to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and Brazil

Re: Ethiopian adds Barcelona service from July 2018

I don't know any of the ins and outs on this route, but wouldn't it make more sense to stop in BCN before continuing to MAD? Geographically it would. Maybe MAD market has more non-stop competition to Africa and ET believes it should have a better service there than to BCN, which has fewer options t...

Re: AR is scrapping business class on its 737-800 fleet

Doesn't really surprise me. South America seems to be getting closer and closer to Europe-level service. AV is the last one to go now... wonder how long they'll hold on to true J on short domestic routes like BOG-MDE, LIM-CUZ, and GYE-UIO. O6 no longer has C (did they ever?) on domestic aircraft. I...

Re: Delta Airlines Busiest Routes

Hey folks, speaking of Delta, does anyone know why they recently downgaged their daily JFK-GRU service from the A333 to the good old 763? It's a little odd since were starting the high season in the US and the middle year Brazilian scholar breaks are just around the corner... Their other frequencie...

Re: AR next long haul type must be able to fly nonstop to Australia/NZ

ojjunior wrote:

I'm sorry, not following here...
Don't AR already flies nonstop EZE-AKL nowadays?

Re: Mexico's Interjet is seeking investment from a foreign airline.

Interjet needs to figure outs its business model. Flying single class yet low density A320s with mere 150 seats while earning LCC income is not a long term solution. Imo they either must become a proper LCC or chose to become more a full service carrier offering multiple classes and try to earn the...

Re: LATAM Brazil to fly 5th freedom between Argentina and Peru

GOL will also start non stop COR and ROS to FOR

Re: Avianca to fly A330-300s

I don’t know how large this ac actually is, but does Avianca Brasil operate GIG/NYC non-stop at all ever? If not, does anyone think that would even happen? If so would they do JFK or EWR for UA connections? Their agenda is to grow at GRU which is severely slot constraint. Any intenational growth fr...

Re: American cancels CNF-MIA

LATAM seems to be struggling with fleet availability for open this route.
I suspect Azul will increase frequency on CNF-MCO or launch CNF-FLL and enjoy the feed it can generate out of CNF

Re: CCS falling into a state of abandonment

Sad to see Venezuela his way, specially since I'm a fan of its people and of Cruz Diez (my family owns a small piece of art of this incredible artist).

Re: Qatar Airways Announces 12 new destinations

ahj2000 wrote:

How many destinations (outside of the US) have they announced but not yet served?

Re: Capacity to return to Brazil?

Starting July 1, TAP Air Portugal to add a 3rd daily flight in same days of the week: LIS-GRU TP 89 LIS 11:15 GRU 17:30 TP 83 LIS 17:00 GRU 23;00 TP 87 LIS 23:20 GRU 05:20 (Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday). GRU-LIS TP 84 GRU 01:30 LIS 15:20 TP 82 GRU 15:30 LIS 05:20 TP 88 GRU 21:40 LIS 11:30 ...

Re: Capacity to return to Brazil?

LPSHobby wrote:

Latam Brasil will start BOS and LAS, Gol will start FOR-MIA and FOR-MCO

Re: Avianca Argentina to receive its first 2 A320s

RCS763AV wrote:

The ATRs were severely limited for operations out of BOG

Re: New non-stop flights between YVR and Brazil 'imminent' after recent visa changes

Could a winter seasonal (2 weekly) YVR-GIG work on Rouge? I bet their 763 can not do it though. I'd hope for a return of YYZ-GIG first, even if it's winter seasonal on a Canadian LCC.

YVR-GRU would be a long flight with no business demand, only leisure from Brazil POS.

Re: Reversal of a Rebranding

TAAG received their first 777 with a new brand. Later they went back to the classic livery: http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/4/0/1102043.jpg?v=v40 http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/4/9/1123941.jpg?v=v40 http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/0/2/7/2608720.jpg?v=v40

Re: Azul and LATAM awaits Brazil-US open skies

Azul and Avianca Brazil aren't in a hurry for open-skies to be signed, according to many recent brazilian articles.

Re: Alitalia ending PEK service, makes MEX seasonal

Hopefully AM will start MEX-FCO and resume MEX-BCN in the next few years. Their 788 is the perfect plane (capacity and cost-wise) to make it work

Re: GOL will fly nonstop to the US with the MAX 8

I bet Brazil's largest airline can generate enough feed out of its banks at BSB and FOR to make it feasible.
MAX lower costs and high utilization will make up for competitive fares for the majority of the price-sensitve markets.

Re: GOL will fly nonstop to the US with the MAX 8

Thanks for reply, is the Y+ish 3 abreast or 2 ? Thanks again. "Seats remain in a 3-3 configuration, but they block the middle seat; seats also have extra legroom and recline. Other features include use of lounges, amenity kit, hot meals, etch" I was wondering how well this would be viewed...

Re: Ib adding more frequencies to NRT

Tokyo was listed on the Madrid page on therouteshop.com as having a demand of over 100,000 (think it was close to 200,000) indirect passengers based on MIDT data for 2016. It's not on there anymore, but it certainly used to be. If we say, for example, that MAD-NRT had a demand of 150,000 then the m...

Re: Emirates reveals 'top upgrade' tricks in new ad

2-3-2 on Business Class is such an upgrade

Re: Orlando air service discussion - 2018

GOL has announced a return to MCO starting Novemeber 4th, 2018 to BSB and FOR. G3 7600 BSB 0950 MCO 1450 G3 7601 MCO 2130 BSB 0820 +1 G3 7654 FOR 0835 MCO 1425 G3 7655 MCO 2145 FOR 0715 +1 Wow! I never realized FOR-MCO would get 2 airlines, this could be a potentially great option for those going f...

Re: ET upgauges GRU/EZE, increases flights to daily

AF022 wrote:

Jomar777 wrote:

berari wrote:

Is AT not doing well to Brazil?

Re: ET upgauges GRU/EZE, increases flights to daily

ET is usually the chepest option to Asia and TLV from GRU but are very expensive to Africa. I guess they get an interesting mix of yield on their flights.

Re: LAW (Chile) abandons all domestic flying

I'd agree with that assessment, even if I am not in Chile. This business of flying "one way tourists" out of Haiti and Venezuela has not helped them for sure. Add to that the failed merger with Star Peru, their aspirations of flying to MIA yet they do not have the equipment for it, now th...

Re: AR goes long haul with the MAX 8

C010T3 wrote:

That's funny, because Gol announced GRU-PUJ with the MAX 8 three weeks ago.

Re: City pairs connected by most airlines

Does ET, QR, TK actually have traffic rights between GRU and EZE? FYI the IATA code for Buenos Aires is EZE not BUE. Yes they do and are ususaly the cheapest options with great deals for C class, though the schedules from EZE to Brasil are terrible. BUE is for the city code of Buenos Aires and cove...

Re: To the Oil Rigs of the Arctic!

Love your TR! Felt like I was travelling along on these exotic cities!!!!

Re: Will Hawaiian Airlines ever expand to include more destinations in the eastern US?

You can buy 2 separate tickets, but the airline cannot sell you a ticket from one country to another country through a US hub. AA, UA and DL sell lots of tickets from multiple destinations in Latin America to Asia, Canada and even Europe. I myself can not remember how many times I flew on a single ...

Re: City pairs connected by most airlines

GRU-BUE: AR+AU, G3, JJ+4M, QR, TK, ET

Re: What 5th Freedoms have you taken?

EZE-GRU - QR 77L
GRU-BCN - SQ 77W
SYD-AKL-SYD - EK 388
EZE-SCL - G3 738
AUA-CCS - G3 738

Re: From the Heart of Eurasia: Air Astana in J and Y to Kazakhstan Expo'17

Nice TR!!
Always happy to read experiences from more remote areas of the World, such as Central Asia.
Can't help but notice your pillow on Sao Paulo sidewalk pattern. Nice one!