Originally Posted by
Pablofe
Looks like the AA flight is now gone.
I wish one of the airlines would use their LAX or SFO/OAK/SJC hubs as an option, useful both for US tourists (and from Asia) going to Brazil, but also for Brazilians living in the West coast.
So, the AA flight from LAX-GRU was first downgraded from daily to 3x weekly, and subsequently dropped, and you're wondering why more airlines aren't flying between the Brazil and the West Coast?
The overwhelming majority of Brazilians living in (and visiting) the US are on the East Coast. Last year Latam started direct flights into Boston, which is a Brazilian-heavy metro area - I don't know if that flight is still going, but it makes complete sense. See this excerpt from
Wikipedia - no West Coast locales are in the Top 10:
10 US counties with the highest concentration of Brazilian-born residents:
Loch Lomond, Florida - 15,8%
Bonnie Lock-Woodsetter Florida - 7,2%
North Bay Village, Florida - 7,1%
East Newark, New Jersey - 6,7%
Framingham, Massachusetts - 6,6%
Harrison, New Jersey - 5,8%
Danbury, Connecticut - 5,6%
Somerville, Massachusetts - 5,4%
Sunshine Ranches, Florida - 5,1%
Flying Hills, Penn - 5,1%
10 US counties with the highest concentration of descendants of Brazilians:
East Newark, New Jersey - 6,20%
North Bay Village, Florida - 6,00%
Danbury, Connecticut - 4,90%
Harrison, Nova Jersey - 4,80%
Framingham, Massachusetts - 4,80%
Somerville, Massachusetts - 4,50%
Kearny, Nova Jersey - 3,70%
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts - 3,60%
Deerfield Beach, Florida - 3,50%
Everett, Massachusetts - 3,20%
Marlborough, Massachusetts - 3,10%