Originally Posted by
tsquare
A similar question would be why don't we fly more JFK to Brazil.... big Portuguese speaking population up there.
I think it has to do something with ATL.
We have applied for both Rio and a second frequency to Sal Paulo. The Sal Paulo service was supposed to start last summer. We were denied the route. We also tried to up guage the current Jfk-Gru route to the 747 and again it was not approved. Routes are awarded by category of aircraft to Brazil.
The second frequency to GRU would have been very good for ER guys because they would have flown both with the 300ER vice the 400 on the one route.