Summary
- Azul’s recent codeshare agreement with Silver Airways expands travel options for Azul customers to more US and Caribbean destinations.
- The agreement includes feeder flights from Orlando and Fort Lauderdale to varied cities in Florida and the Bahamas.
- Azul has been growing its presence within the Caribbean through interline and codesharing agreements, targeting traffic to the region.
Brazilian low-cost carrier Azul has entered right into a codeshare agreement with US regional carrier Silver Airways. The deal includes flights from Orlando and Fort Lauderdale in Florida to cities within the US and the Caribbean and can allow Azul customers to travel to more destinations on a single ticket.
Orlando and Fort Lauderdale are the one destinations Azul flies to within the US, so the codeshare agreement will include feeder flights from the 2 cities. From Orlando, customers will give you the option to travel to Key West, Fort Lauderdale, and Tampa in the US and to Marsh Harbour and North Eleuthera within the Bahamas.
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From Fort Lauderdale, it is going to be possible to go to Key West, Tampa, Gainesville, and Orlando within the state of Florida. The codeshare will even cover a number of the islands that make up the Bahamas: North Eleuthera, Freeport, Georgetown, Governor’s Harbour, Marsh Harbour, and Bimini. Moreover, Silver Airways is starting a path to Providenciales in Turks & Caicos.
Azul’s growing presence within the Caribbean
Azul has been growing its network to the US and the Caribbean lately, launching a brand new route from Belo Horizonte to Orlando last yr and relaunching flights between Recife and Orlando. The airline flies to Orlando from its hub in Campinas and offers direct flights to Recife, Belém, Belo Horizonte, and Manaus. Azul also flies 11 weekly flights to Fort Lauderdale from three cities in Brazil: Campinas, Recife, and Belo Horizonte, using its Airbus 300-900 fleet.
It’s currently the most important airline in Brazil by the variety of scheduled flights, operating to destinations in North America and Europe on top of its massive domestic network. The airline operates a fleet of A330s and A350s for its long-haul network and recently placed an order for 4 A330-900s for fleet standardization.
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Besides Silver Airways, Azul places its code on some United Airlines flights out of the 2 cities it serves. The airline also has a codeshare agreement with JetBlue, with whom it shares the identical founder, from Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. Their networks complement nicely as JetBlue has extensive networks in each cities, especially from Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean.
The airline has been targeting traffic to the Caribbean lately through extensive interline and codesharing agreements. Its agreement with JetBlue was expanded last yr with recent destinations within the Bahamas. With the brand new Silver Airways codeshare agreement, the airline is in a position to offer more destinations within the region than ever. The airline can also be launching flights using its own metals, with its flight between Willemstad in Curaçao and Belo Horizonte launched last yr.
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The Brazilian airline currently operates a various fleet, from Cessnas to Airbus A350s.
About Silver Airways
Silver Airways is a regional carrier operating out of three bases in Florida, namely Orlando, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale, and a Caribbean base in San Juan, with a network that mostly focuses on cities in Florida equivalent to Key West and Tallahassee. The airline operates a fleet of ATR turboprop aircraft, consisting of 8 ATR-42s and seven ATR-72s, based on ch-aviation.
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The airline has codeshare agreements with many major US carriers, including American, Delta, United, and JetBlue, and it previously operated several ATR freighters on behalf of Amazon. Nevertheless, the partnership led to 2023 when the 2 firms cut ties.