Additional Flight From Dallas To Sao Paulo

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American Will Introduce a Second Nonstop Flight Between DFW and Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 9
Thursday February 17, 12:16 pm ET
New Flight Continues AA's International Expansion at DFW; Is Made Possible By Strength of DFW Connecting Hub


FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines continued the development of its international services at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport today by announcing that it will introduce a second nonstop flight between DFW and Sao Paulo, Brazil, effective June 9.
American said it will operate the new flight five days a week with 211-seat Boeing 767-300 aircraft in the peak season and three days a week between Sept. 7 and Nov. 22. The inaugural flight will come about one month before the opening of DFW's new International Terminal D and will give American a significant international service expansion with which to showcase the new gateway facility.

"Sao Paulo is Brazil's largest business center and one of the most important destinations in all of Latin America for travel and trade to North Texas," said Dan Garton, American's Executive Vice President of Marketing. "Our ability to introduce this significant new service is made possible by the strength of the DFW hub and its broad range of connecting service from points across our route network."

The DFW-Sao Paulo announcement comes less than two weeks after American revealed that growth by American and its regional affiliate, American Eagle, at DFW will surpass earlier projections and increase their combined service to a total of 839 departures a day at DFW by July 2005. This will involve a total of 119 additional flights at DFW above what they offered last summer.

Including Sao Paulo, American and American Eagle serve a total of 31 international destinations from DFW. A 32nd international point will be added in November when American begins nonstop service between DFW and Osaka, Japan. American has been flying nonstop between DFW and Sao Paulo since April 1995. With the growth and success of the DFW hub, American and American Eagle have grown their international service offering at DFW by 94 percent since the summer of 1995.

Here is American's DFW-Sao Paulo schedule (all times are local):

FROM DALLAS/FORT WORTH TO SAO PAULO

Flight # Departs Arrives
981 (new) 5:40 p.m. 5:47 a.m. (next day)
Operates daily except Monday and Wednesday

963 7:45 p.m. 9:56 a.m. (next day) Daily

FROM SAO PAULO TO DALLAS/FORT WORTH

Flight # Departs Arrives
962 9:55 p.m. 6:21 a.m. (next day) Daily

982 (new) 11:55 p.m. 8:22 a.m. (next day)
Operates daily except Tuesday and Thursday



The Boeing 767-300 aircraft American flies on the DFW-Sao Paulo route have 29 Business Class seats, featuring 60 inches of legroom, and 182 seats in the Main Cabin.
 
FA Mikey said:
I thought we were maxed out on slots to Brazil. I hope Miami is not losing one of its flights to accomadate this new DFW one.
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We are maxed out. Either...

...AA will apply for unused slots from AA
...or AA will drop flights. The most likely is dropping the MIA-GRU daylight, and then giving five slots to DFW-GRU and two slots to MIA-GIG (which can then go 2x daily).
 
Didn't I see that DL is applying for unused UA slots to fly to GIG? Perhaps AA is also applying for them.
 
This is great news from a passenger viewpoint. Sure beats connecting/customs from the hell hole MIA has become
 
AA is supposedly dropping one of the two MIA-GIG flights in order to start DFW-GRU.

AA has not applied for any UA frequencies.
 
WorldTraveler said:
AA is supposedly dropping one of the two MIA-GIG flights in order to start DFW-GRU.

AA has not applied for any UA frequencies.
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Yes.

MIA-GIG will only operate daily this summer. No surprise, it is the slow season. Though the new DFW-GRU flights are seasonal, not year-round. MIA-GIG will go back to 12x weekly in time for Thanksgiving.

Also, pending aircraft availability (i.e. if ORD-SHA doesn't start this summer), MIA-GIG will be a 772.