The Brazilian company announced a new route between Uruguay and Brazil, bound for the city of Curitiba.
The Brazilian airline Azul announced a new route that will connect the capital of the Uruguay with the city of the neighboring country, Curitiba, one of the main capitals of the country, and which will begin operating on October 31.
Uruguay continues to add national routes and recover the frequencies it had before the start of the pandemic in 2020. This time it was the turn of the Brazilian airline, Blue, which he announced in a statement to which he accessed Ámbito.coma new route between Montevideo and Curitiba which will have a frequency of four times a week.
The new flight will begin from 31 October this year on Embraer E2 aircraft, which have the capacity to transport up to 136 passengers. According to the company statement, the takeoffs “will take place at noon from the capital of the state of Paraná, all Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday”, while the returns “are scheduled for the same days, departing from Uruguay at 3:10 p.m.”
In this sense, the commercial manager of Uruguay Airports, Matías Carlucciopointed out that “opening a new destination like Curitiba is great news for the Carrasco Airport and for our country. It is another example of Azul’s commitment to Uruguay, and a sign that the work that we do throughout the year between the public and private sectors to enhance national connectivity bears fruit.”
For her part, the manager of Blue Network Planning, Beatriz Barbi, He stressed that “Connect Brazil with another international destination is a joy for Blue” since they have “a wide national network that allows greater connectivity in the country and offering more flight options to other countries is an incentive so that we can take even more passengers to all possible destinations.”
80% of pre-pandemic frequencies were recovered
Last Friday the Minister of Tourism, Tabaré Viera, announced the return of the Chilean airline SKY to Uruguay in 2024 and which has the objective of connect the country with the rest of the region.
The company is expected to take 4 international routes that will connect with direct flights to Montevideo with the cities of Brazil, Salvador de Bahía and Florianópolis, Santiago de Chili and Lima (Peru). According to estimates, next year SKY will transport more than 100,000 passengers between arrivals and departures from the country.
On the other hand, the minister highlighted that the country recovered 80% of the frequencies that operated in 2019 and had decreased during the pandemic of Covid-19. In this sense, he highlighted that the arrival of the Chilean firm “is very good, because it is a company that will provide very good service with low costs.”
Source: Ambito
