NY to Rio

gustin@stanfordalumni.org (Andrew Gustin) wrote in message news:<8ec93149.0309070949.4674b527@ com>...
> Does anyone have any suggestions for air travel between NYC and Rio
> for a week over New Year's? Has nonstop NY-Rio service been
> discontinued? Are there any other US citiies which still offer nonstop
> service?
>
> One option seems to be connecting in Miami... Just trying to explore
> the most practical and inexpensive of the possibilities.
>
> Thanks.

It seems most carriers stop at Sao Paulo first before Rio.
Continental offers flights to Rio from New York (EWR). I believe it
stops at Sao Paulo first. Varig does too, from JFK.

Last Christmas, AA had a fare sale for $279 from NY to Rio. Although
with taxes it came to $400 and change, we grabbed it. We could'nt get
ones from either Newark of JFK (Don't even remember if AA services EWR
to Rio), ended up flying from Phila. to Rio, via Miami and Sao Paulo.

If AA do it again this year, we're going. The five of us spent $100
each to get a five year tourist Visa from the Brazilian consulate in
Manhattan. We are not going to use it just once.

Yaofeng

>If AA do it again this year, we're going. The five of us spent $100
>each to get a five year tourist Visa from the Brazilian consulate in
>Manhattan. We are not going to use it just once.

Admirable, but you're going to extract all the value of your $100 visa by spending $400 on airfare?

-C