AVIANCA-Brazil joining Star Alliance
Nov 18, 2014, 10:59 am
#3
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Originally Posted by dvs7310:23768514
Their joining was announced quite a while ago, the only part here that is surprising is how delayed they are. It was supposed to happen in 2014.
Nov 19, 2014, 7:12 pm
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My understanding is O6 will merge their FFP into Lifemiles in Q2 next year and O6 will merge operations into AV in Q3 and become AV (operated by O6) which will be part of AV in *A.
Nov 21, 2014, 10:54 am
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I'm not surprised they were stalled/delayed, their website looks good but doesn't seem to work all that well, if you try to buy intl tickets through them it says it's pending Brazilian govt approval or something.
I would've thought this could be done smoother, but hey I don't know the inner workings of the purchase by Avianca.
That said, I managed to buy an O6 ticket just the other day, but I had to do it through an OTA because I don't have a Brazilian CPF. I'll say this, they're currently losing money, I'm sure the majority of their pax are Brazilians, but I couldn't find any O6 flights on Orbitz, ITA Matrix, or any other north American OTA. Had to use Despegar's sister site Decolar, which was a bit of a pain. Once they get into Avianca I really hope their fares manage to get out there. There was very little price difference between GOL, Azul, Tam, O6 between Sao Paulo and Rio, but I'm an Avianca fan so I wanted to fly with them but they didn't make it easy that's for sure.
I would've thought this could be done smoother, but hey I don't know the inner workings of the purchase by Avianca.
That said, I managed to buy an O6 ticket just the other day, but I had to do it through an OTA because I don't have a Brazilian CPF. I'll say this, they're currently losing money, I'm sure the majority of their pax are Brazilians, but I couldn't find any O6 flights on Orbitz, ITA Matrix, or any other north American OTA. Had to use Despegar's sister site Decolar, which was a bit of a pain. Once they get into Avianca I really hope their fares manage to get out there. There was very little price difference between GOL, Azul, Tam, O6 between Sao Paulo and Rio, but I'm an Avianca fan so I wanted to fly with them but they didn't make it easy that's for sure.
Dec 4, 2014, 3:15 pm
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Jul 22, 2015, 7:30 am
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Today's the day. As of 22 July 2015 Avianca Brazil is a *A member.
http://thewaybrazilisback.com.br/en
http://blog.wandr.me/2015/07/avianca...star-alliance/
Some links are to my blog; now you know.
http://thewaybrazilisback.com.br/en
http://blog.wandr.me/2015/07/avianca...star-alliance/
Some links are to my blog; now you know.
Last edited by sbm12; Jul 22, 2015 at 8:40 am Reason: added links
Jul 22, 2015, 8:47 am
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Good news. Made the front page of staralliance.com with a nice picture as well.
Time to study their FFP I guess: http://www.avianca.com.br/en/amigo
Time to study their FFP I guess: http://www.avianca.com.br/en/amigo
Jul 22, 2015, 12:39 pm
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Time to study their FFP I guess: http://www.avianca.com.br/en/amigo
Maybe if there's a crazy good deal on buying points there could be an opportunity to play with this one, but at first glance I'm taking a pass.
Jul 26, 2015, 9:13 am
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I was looking to book GRU to CWB for Dec 25-Jan10 and Avianca has the most ridiculous fare of 1300 reals. Now TAM and GoL is offering the same route for about US100.
Jul 28, 2015, 11:15 pm
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I flew them between CGH-SDU and GIG-GRU, prices were more expensive than the others, but very competitive, it was a couple bucks at most and I wanted those airports, those times and wanted to try AV Brasil.
I think the pricing is probably like most other airlines, sometimes it's a ridiculous fare, so you don't buy it, maybe next time they are the cheapest. Outside of LCCs.
I think the pricing is probably like most other airlines, sometimes it's a ridiculous fare, so you don't buy it, maybe next time they are the cheapest. Outside of LCCs.