TAM Begins Flights to Miami and Paris from Belo Horizonte
September 24 2008 - 3:06PM
PR Newswire (US)
Frequencies depart daily from the Tancredo Neves International
Airport (Confins) SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept. 24
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAM (NYSE: TAM; Bovespa: TAMM4) began
operating two new international routes last weekend from the Belo
Horizonte Airport (Confins). TAM began offering daily flights from
the capital of Minas Gerais to Miami (USA), with a stop in Rio de
Janeiro, and to Paris (France) with a stop in Sao Paulo. "These
flights are a major step towards strengthening the Belo Horizonte
Airport (Confins) and consolidating it as an international hub,"
said Captain David Barioni Neto, president of TAM. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080221/SPTH002LOGO ) The
frequency to Miami is operated from the Tom Jobim Airport (Galeao),
in Rio de Janeiro, using a Boeing 767-300 with capacity of up to
205 passengers in Executive and Economy class configuration. The
Paris frequency will operate from Sao Paulo's Guarulhos Airport
using a modern Airbus A330 aircraft configured for three classes,
replacing the MD-11 currently being used that should be returned
this year. The Belo Horizonte-Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte-Sao
Paulo legs are operated in both directions using Airbus A320
aircraft. The flight to Miami departs from Tancredo Neves
International Airport in Belo Horizonte (Confins) at 7:30 p.m.,
arriving at Tom Jobim Airport (Galeao) in Rio de Janeiro at 8:25
p.m., from where it departs at 11:05 p.m. for Miami International
Airport, landing at 6:30 a.m. the following day. The return trip
departs Miami at 10:05 p.m. for Rio de Janeiro (Galeao), arriving
at 7:10 a.m., departing at 9:30 a.m. for Belo Horizonte (Confins)
and arriving at 10:35 a.m. The roundtrip price between Belo
Horizonte and Miami will begin at US$ 829 for tickets issued until
December 4. The flight to Paris departs Belo Horizonte (Confins) at
7:25 p.m. and lands in Sao Paulo (Guarulhos) at 8:40 p.m.,
departing at 11 p.m. and arriving in Paris (Charles de Gaulle
Airport) the following day at 3:20 p.m. The return flight departs
Paris at 11 p.m. and arrives in Sao Paulo (Guarulhos) the following
day at 5:40 a.m., departing at 8:30 a.m. for Belo Horizonte and
landing at 9:35 a.m. With these new frequencies, TAM will operate
three international flights daily from Belo Horizonte International
Airport. Besides the flights to Miami and Paris, TAM has been
operating a daily frequency since November 2007 between Belo
Horizonte and Buenos Aires (Argentina), with a stop in Guarulhos,
Sao Paulo. "These international flights are an unequivocal
demonstration of TAM's wager on the development of the Belo
Horizonte market," said TAM's vice president for Commercial and
Planning, Paulo Castello Branco. In addition to international
operations, the company also has invested in the creation of new
domestic flights directly connecting the Minas Gerais capital to
destinations in the south of the country, without stopping in Sao
Paulo. For example, since August, the flight that departs Porto
Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) at 7:30 a.m. lands in Curitiba at 8:35
a.m., and then departs at 9:15 a.m. for Belo Horizonte (Confins),
arriving at 11:00 a.m. In the opposite direction, the flight
departs Confins at 8:00 p.m. and lands in Curitiba at 9:45 p.m.,
departing at 10:20 p.m. for Porto Alegre, where it arrives at 11:25
p.m. The flight that departs Belo Horizonte (Confins) at 12 noon
and lands in Sao Paulo (Guarulhos) at 1:20 p.m. allows for a number
of domestic and international connections operated by TAM and
partner airlines. In the opposite direction, the flight leaves Sao
Paulo at 6:05 p.m. and arrives in the Minas Gerais capital at 7:20
p.m. Note: the Confins-Rio de Janeiro (Galeao)-Confins and
Confins-Sao Paulo (Guarulhos)-Confins routes are operated with
Airbus A320 aircraft.
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