Tag: Azul Airlines

• Saturday, January 25th 2025 - 10:36 UTC

  Foreign travelers contribute significantly to Brazil's economy in 2024

  

  Foreign travelers brought in US$7.341 billion in revenue to Brazil last year, the South American country's Central Bank (BCB) announced on Friday, citing a report from the Ministry of Tourism. These figures represented the best results in 15 years, and an increase of 6.28% compared to the US$6.907 billion in 2023.

• Saturday, May 25th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

  Azul and Gol launch codeshare partnership

  

  Brazilian carriers Azul and Gol announced an agreement whereby each company could sell seats on codeshare domestic flights solely operated by the other, Agencia Brasil reported Friday. The understanding will become effective next month, it was also explained. Routes on which both companies compete directly are excluded.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 - 20:21 UTC

  Brazilian airlines announce services to Air Force Base in Porto Alegre

  

  After it was confirmed that there is no date for the reopening of the Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre, still partially under water due to the unprecedented heavy rains that have hit the State of Rio Grande do Sul since April 29, local airlines have announced the start of services to the nearby Canoas Air Force Base, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, November 29th 2021 - 19:18 UTC

  LATAM Airlines plunges at Santiago stock exchange

  

  Latam Airlines stock plunges over 80% at the Santiago market after a reshaping plan was announced, one which evaporated the value of current shares. The proposal is yet to be voted on by creditors between January and February 2022.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 19:54 UTC

  Azul after all of LATAM Airlines

  

  The Brazilian airline Azul has confirmed it plans to buy over all of LATAM Airlines' operations, not only the Brazilian branch as reports showed earlier this week. Azul was founded in 2013 by Brazil-born David Neeleman, who also owns low-cost carrier JetBlue.

• Saturday, September 11th 2021 - 10:16 UTC

  Azul returning to Uruguay in November from Porto Alegre

  

  Brazilian carrier Azul will resume flights to Uruguay as of November 10 with the reopening of the Porto Alegre-Montevideo route four times a week.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  LATAM denies any hostile attempt to take over its Brazil operations, as reported by Wall Street Journal

  

  LATAM Airlines strongly denied on Monday it has intentions of getting rid of its operations in Brazil, given the interest of its main competitor Azul airlines, as was reported by the Wall Street Journal indicating that there were ongoing conversations with Latam creditors to purchase its Brazilian affiliate.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 06:21 UTC

  Brazil's Azul signs a one billion dollars deal with German manufacturer for 220 VTOL taxi aircraft

  

  Azul, Brazil's third-largest airline announced on Monday a one billion dollars accord with German manufacturer Lilium for the purchase of 220 of VTOL electric aircraft scheduled to begin operating in 2025.

• Saturday, May 29th 2021 - 03:50 UTC

  Brazilian airline interested in taking over LATAM Brazil

  

  After reporting the cancellation of the code share with LATAM Brazil, and announcing that it was looking for «consolidation opportunities» in the market, air industry sources indicate that Azul Linhas Aéreas is considering making an offer to LATAM Airlines for the Brazilian subsidiary.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Regulator opens Rio/Sao Paulo air bridge to third carrier, Azul

  

  Brazil’s No. 3 airline, Azul SA, said on Monday it would start operating 17 flights per day between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the country’s most transited route, currently dominated by the country’s No. 1 and 2 carriers.