South America

If you have an hour... The hustle and bustle of Paulista can quickly bore business travellers oppressed by traffic. They can take a short stroll in the Parque Tenente Siqueira Campos off Avenida Paulista or, a little further south and much larger, in the gigantic Parque Ibirapuera....

one of the world's top ten economic powers Are the city's infrastructures adapted to the expectations of business customers? Stéphane Engelhard - They are, with a very large hotel capacity and two convention centres suited to international events. Accommodation is easy and affordable. As for transport...

Already partners in the Skyteam alliance, and sharing codes for the past fifteen years, Air France KLM and Air Europa intend to go even further. The two groups have decided to join forces in a joint venture, the project for which is now awaiting approval from the competition authorities, in this case the...

On 22 August, Latam Airlines Group announced an investment of 400 million dollars: a financial windfall which will be used to modernise the cabins of 200 aircraft. The first flights on these aircraft will take place in 2018, and will be operated by Latam Peru. The airline plans to carry out these changes on its Boeing 767s...

The shopping spree continues at AccorHotels. Following the acquisition of Moevenpick and the strategic partnership with South Africa's Mantis last month, and a few weeks after receiving the go-ahead from the Australian authorities for the takeover of the Mantra group, the French hotel operator has announced the purchase of the Chilean group Atton Hoteles. For this transaction, AccorHotels has teamed up with...

The SkyTeam alliance is expanding its range of business lounges with the expected opening of its eighth and ninth worldwide by the end of the year. These new additions come on the heels of the inauguration of a new lounge in Vancouver last November, and following on from North America, the alliance will now be offering its South American business lounges in Santiago,...

Latin American air transport is in fine fettle. The Association of Latin American and Caribbean Airlines (ALTA) has reported that growth in passenger traffic last year was 7.1%, or 126.44 million passengers, excluding Brazilian domestic routes. On Intra-Latin American routes, growth was even as high as 7.4%, for a rate of...

Following in the footsteps of many airlines, Iberia is now launching an intermediate Premium Economy class, called Turista Premium. Luis Gallego, Executive Chairman of Iberia, explains that this launch is part of "the company's Plan Futuro, which aims to increase revenues, while offering passengers a new option with greater flexibility.

Formalities Formalities: Passport valid for six months after return. Currency: peso (COP). 1 E = 3179 COP (Nov. 2015). Area code: +57. Best season: The dry season, from December to February. Rainy seasons in April-May and October-November. Time difference: -6 hours in summer, -7 hours in winter.

From January to July 2015, Brazil's local civil aviation agency announced that airlines carried a total of 56.5 million domestic passengers, an increase of just 3.6 % compared with the same period in 2014. This is leading Brazilian carriers to make adjustments to their domestic capacity. In August...

Air France will be strengthening its service to Cuba by launching an additional flight to Havana in October. On the other hand, several loss-making routes - Stavanger, Verona, Kuala Lumpur - will be closed in winter 2015 as part of the Perform 2020 plan. Reductions in frequencies are also expected to Japan, Brazil and...

Almost ten years after the initial 2005 codeshare agreement on the Seoul - Los Angeles - Santiago route, Korean Air and LAN are improving their collaboration in Lima. The new codeshare agreement should simplify connections to the Peruvian capital. In concrete terms, passengers from...

In total, no fewer than 2,300 seats will be offered each week by Iberia between Madrid and Montevideo. The Spanish airline explains its return to the Uruguayan capital by the reduction in base costs generated by the restructuring carried out in 2013. Montevideo will therefore become Iberia's 16th destination...

Like other heavyweights in the business travel industry, BCD Travel is going Brazilian. The business travel agency (TMC) recently concluded a joint venture with Avipam (Agência de Viagens Internacionais, Passagens Aéreas e Marítimas), one of the five largest business travel agencies in Brazil. Founded in 1947, the Brazilian agency had already signed an agreement with Avipam in 2007...

Getting there AIR FRANCE operates thirteen weekly flights between Paris and Rio, with Airbus A330 or Boeing B747 quad-class aircraft. Tel: 0820 820 820 Internet: www.airfrance.fr Getting there AIR FRANCE operates thirteen weekly flights between Paris and Rio, with either Airbus A330 or Boeing B747 four-class aircraft. Tel: 0820 820 820...

São Paulo is a sprawling city with an official population of 11 million. In fact, it could be closer to 19 million, or even 23 million if you include the greater metropolitan area. In any case, these are fluctuating figures, difficult to determine, as São Paulo moves, advances, changes and expands a little more each year... And yet it is this capital...

São Paulo's helicopter fleet will soon almost certainly be the largest in the world. For a long time, it was ranked behind Tokyo and New York, but the newspaper Estado de São Paulo has just published a study that would change the situation in favour of Brazil's economic capital. The story begins in 1994, when the Brazilian government...

"Brasilia? But it's a city with no soul!" scoff the Pau listes and other coastal dwellers. Is it? Well, given the images we've seen of the city, you'd be forgiven for wondering. And while there's no doubting the plastic beauty of the place, it's...

But the days of double-digit growth are over. After the slowdown that followed the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the current downturn is the main cause for concern in the press, but also among the Thai authorities. In April, the Bank of Thailand forecast a decline from 1.5 1TP3Q to 3.5 1TP3Q...