Aerolíneas Argentinas Announces Flight Schedule for Brazil, Including the Return of Porto Seguro

Within the framework of the ABAV 2023 International Tourism Expo taking place this week in Rio de Janeiro, Aerolíneas Argentinas provided details on the flight schedule to Brazil for the 2024 summer and winter seasons, which includes as a notable novelty the return of a destination after five years: Porto Seguro, in the northeast of the neighboring country.

The route between Buenos Aires and Porto Seguro will reopen in April 2024 with one weekly flight, which will increase to two per week in July.

“It is a great pride to resume the routes that were abandoned by the previous management. Today we have more flights, more destinations, more planes and better economic results. Today, we have an Aerolíneas Argentinas that does not stop growing and that is at the service of the country,” said Pablo Ceriani, president of Aerolíneas Argentinas, through a press release.

Flights to Brazil during the summer

Aerolíneas Argentinas also provided details about its summer programming, which will be structured as follows:

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• Córdoba – Rio de Janeiro: three weekly flights.
• Mendoza – Rio de Janeiro: two flights per week.
• Buenos Aires – Florianópolis: seven weekly flights.
• Córdoba – Florianópolis: three weekly flights.
• Buenos Aires – Salvador: five weekly flights.
• Buenos Aires – San Pablo: 28 weekly flights.
• Mendoza – San Pablo: two flights per week.
• Salta – San Pablo: a weekly flight.
• Buenos Aires – Rio de Janeiro: 27 weekly flights.

Winter 2024

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Fabián Lombardo, commercial director of Aerolíneas Argentinas and in charge of the presentation at the fair, emphasized the objective of attending to show the offer for next winter. “Starting in October, Brazilian agencies will be selling our flights. “We are sure that we will have an even better winter in 2024 than this year,” he commented.

Aiming at inbound tourism, Aerolíneas Argentinas also confirmed the following direct routes to the interior for the 2024 winter season:

• Bariloche – San Pablo: two weekly flights.
• El Calafate – Córdoba – San Pablo: two flights per week.
• Mendoza – San Pablo: two flights per week.
• San Martín de los Andes – San Pablo: two weekly flights.
• Ushuaia – San Pablo: two flights per week.
• Salta – San Pablo: a weekly flight.

All this is complemented by the annual operation that links Buenos Aires with Porto Alegre (six weekly flights), Curitiba (four weekly flights) and Brasilia (three weekly flights).

Aerolíneas Argentinas indicated that between January and August 2023 they transported 718 thousand passengers between Argentina and Brazil, with an average occupancy of 84%, when throughout 2022 they had transported 765 thousand passengers. Only in July of this year they transported 107,600 passengers, a record number and 24% higher than in 2019.