São Paulo – UAE-based carrier Emirates announced a new codeshare agreement with Latam Airlines covering 17 domestic destinations in Brazil. Dubai-Brazil and Brazil-Dubai passengers can connect with new destinations from Latam’s domestic network covered by the codeshare deal.
Destinations available from São Paulo include Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Foz do Iguaçu, Belém, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Manaus, Salvador, Vitória, Londrina, Porto Alegre, Recife and São Luís. Passengers departing from Rio can connect with Belém, Brasília, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Foz do Iguaçu, Manaus, Natal ad Vitória.
Passengers travelling to or from those cities can connect in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with Emirates’ flights to its Dubai hub, which serves over 150 destinations worldwide.
The agreement provides increased options for passengers to fly across Brazil and ensures minimal connection times to Emirates destinations like Japan, Australia and India.
Emirates offers daily Dubai-São Paulo flights on an Airbus A380, and Dubai-Rio de Janeiro flights with a newly refurbished Boeing 777-200 LR starting June 1. As of that date, passengers will also be able to fly to Buenos Aires and Santiago do Chile with a stopover in Rio.
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
