TAM starts flight from Rio de Janeiro to Frankfurt from August 10th

There will be five flights per week, operated by Airbus A330 aircraft, with capacity for 223 passengers

São Paulo – We will start on August 10th the operation of its new international long distance route, connecting Rio de Janeiro to Frankfurt, in Germany. There will be five flights per week, operated by modern A330 aircrafts configured in three different service classes, being four seats in the First Class, 36 seats in the Executive Class and 183 seats in the Economic Class, totalizing 223 seats for passengers.  

The flights between Rio de Janeiro and Frankfurt will be schedule in prime time, ensuring more comfort and convenience to passengers, especially on business travels. From August 10th, the flight JJ 8072 will take off from the Tom Jobim International Airport (Galeão), in Rio de Janeiro, at 09:48p.m. and it will land in Frankfurt at 02:40p.m. (local time). The return travel will take place in flight JJ 8073, which starts being operated on August 11th, taking off from Frankfurt at 10:40p.m. (local time) and arriving in Rio de Janeiro at 06:09a.m.  

TAM’s Commercial and Planning Vice-President, Paulo Castello Branco, explains: „We will increase our offer to Frankfurt with the two new A330 aircrafts that we ordered to meet the strong demand of passengers to this important business center in Europe, as shown in the high load factor rates registered by our flight between São Paulo (Guarulhos) and Frankfurt, launched in November 2007 and that in these two and a half years has presented load factor in level of 80% in the monthly average. In the first five months of this year, the monthly average load factor increased to 82%.“   Castello Branco stresses that „with this new route connecting Rio de Janeiro directly to Frankfurt, we are expanding our operations in Galeão. From this airport, which is our second center of international connections, we operate direct flights to Europe (Paris), United States (New York and Miami) and South America (Buenos Aires), besides Santiago and Caracas, with stop over in Guarulhos.“

Galeão is also the Company’s third hub in the domestic market, allowing passengers from several Brazilian cities travelling to Frankfurt, with connection in Tom Jobim Airport.   Passengers flying in TAM’s First and Executive Classes can use the company’s VIP room in Galeão and Frankfurt airports, with areas for resting, entertainment and work stations. The company also offers transfer to these customers free of charge in private car in the city of Frankfurt. Besides, all passengers can use the free mobile phone rental service, in which the customer pays only for the calls made. Round trip air tickets between Rio de Janeiro and Frankfurt are already available for sale on TAM´s reservation systems and they cost from US$ 981* in the Economic Class and US$ 3,932* in the Executive Class.   * amounts without included fees, subject to adjustments and availability of seats and characteristics of the flight, like time of stay in the destination for instance.
  Check out the new flight’s timetable*:

* local time

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