LATAM will resume direct Rio de Janeiro-Lima flights in March

LATAM will resume direct Rio de Janeiro-Lima flights in March

LATAM started selling airline tickets for the direct flight to Lima (LIM) – Peru, from Rio de Janeiro – Galeão (GIG). Suspended since March 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the route from Galeão airport will be operated again on March 29, 2022. This will be the second international operation that LATAM will reactivate in Rio de Janeiro, after of the direct flight from Galeão to Santiago (SCL) – Chile, reopened in November 2021.

The Rio de Janeiro-Lima route will be operated again with 3 flights per week. Lasting about 5h50m, the flight is scheduled to be operated on Airbus A319 aircraft, which accommodate 140 passengers (8 Premium Economy and 132 Economy) or Airbus A320, which accommodate 176 passengers (8 Premium Economy and 168 Economy). The flight will depart from Galeão airport at 7:10 pm (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). In the opposite direction, it will take off from Lima at 11:15 am (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). Airline tickets are now available on latam.com and other sales channels.

 

“Despite the effects of the pandemic, we continue to look to the future and attentive to all opportunities to resume more international flights in Rio de Janeiro. The big beneficiary is the LATAM customer, who will once again find faster and more convenient options to fly abroad, especially with all the options we have in our important hub in Lima, Peru. In addition, foreign travelers also have better options to visit our country”, explains Diogo Elias, director of Sales and Marketing at LATAM Brazil.

 

In all, LATAM has already returned to fly directly to 19 international destinations re-established from the São Paulo – Guarulhos Airport (GRU). They are: Santiago (SCL), Lima (LIM), Buenos Aires/Aeroparque (AEP), Buenos Aires/Ezeiza (EZE), Mendoza (MDZ), Montevideo (MVD), Asunción (ASU), Bogotá (BOG), City Mexico (MEX), Frankfurt (FRA), Paris (CDG), Lisbon (LIS), Madrid (MAD), Barcelona (BCN), Milan (MXP), London (LHR), Miami (MIA), New York (JFK) and Orlando (MCO).

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