JetSmart expands flight offer to Argentina and Chile – 04/05/2024 – Market

The Chilean airline JetSmart Airlines, which operates in South America with low-cost tickets, announced this Thursday (4) that it will offer three more routes between Brazilian capitals and the cities of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, and Santiago, in Chile.

There will be two routes leaving from Curitiba (PR), one to Santiago de Chile and the other to Buenos Aires; and a third route leaving from Porto Alegre (RS) to Buenos Aires. Three weekly flights will be offered on each route.

The airline will offer fares starting at R$419 each way (including taxes). Sales are now open, but flights begin operating in June and July.

With the idea of ​​maintaining a lower air ticket price than that charged by traditional airlines, JetSmart does not offer free services such as meals, seat assignments and baggage check-in, for example.

With the three new sections, the company now has ten direct routes in total between Brazil and South American countries. It has already been operating in Brazil since December 2019 – it has routes from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, for example .

Flights departing from Paraná, from Afonso Pena International Airport, to Santiago and Buenos Aires, begin operating on June 19th and July 11th.

The company expects to receive more than 15 thousand passengers in its first year of operation on the flight from Curitiba to Santiago, which lasts 3h30. On the flight from Curitiba to Buenos Aires, lasting 2h23, the company expects to attract more than 40 thousand passengers in the first year of operation.

In Paraná, JetSmart already operates in Foz do Iguaçu, bound for Santiago de Chile. And, in the southern region, the company also operates in the capital of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, traveling to Buenos Aires and also Santiago de Chile.

In Rio Grande do Sul, operations begin at Salgado Filho International Airport heading to the Argentine capital from July 12th. The flight from Porto Alegre to Buenos Aires lasts 1h46 and the company estimates it will attract more than 45 thousand passengers in the first year of operation.

In a statement released by JetSmart this Thursday, the company states that the Brazilian market, the largest on the South American continent, has “huge potential for expansion”.

At the beginning of March, Anac (National Civil Aviation Agency) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Argentina that puts an end to weekly limits on regular passenger flights between the two countries.

Until then, Brazilian and Argentine companies were limited to offering, together, a maximum number of 170 weekly flights.

Anac’s expectation is that the instrument will generate an increase in the supply of services, increasing competition.

The three new routes announced by JetSmart this Thursday were already included in the company’s planning, before the memorandum of understanding.