Summary
- Azul Linhas Aéreas is launching a brand new international route connecting Porto Alegre International Airport to Rivera International Airport, the primary binational airport within the Americas.
- Brazil plans to make use of Rivera Airport as a domestic hub, allowing Brazilian passengers to treat it as a domestic service.
- This marks Azul’s third destination in Uruguay and is a component of the corporate’s expansion of its international presence.
The Brazilian company Azul Linhas Aéreas has announced the launch of a brand new international route connecting Porto Alegre International Airport (POA) to Rivera International Airport (RVY) in Uruguay. Rivera International is the primary binational airport within the Americas, meaning Brazilian passengers will give you the chance to land there as if it were a domestic service.
The primary binational airport within the Americas
Earlier this week, Uruguay inaugurated a brand new airport within the country, Rivera International. This latest infrastructure was built with the primary objective of working as a binational airport operated each by Brazil and Uruguay. The South American countries invested $13 million in RVY.
Photo: Azul.
Brazil will employ Rivera Airport as a domestic hub. On this regard, the Uruguayan Minister of Defense said earlier this week to Ámbito that “if there are individuals who wish to enter Uruguay, they undergo Uruguayan immigration and enter; if not, they proceed to Brazil, and it’s considered a domestic flight.”
Azul’s latest route
Able to be launched in the primary half of 2024, Azul Linhas Aéreas is trying to operate the route between Porto Alegre and Rivera, Uruguay. That is Azul’s third destination in Uruguay.
The brand new route marks one other step within the expansion of the corporate’s international presence, which in 2023 established routes to Paris, Curaçao, along with other destinations akin to Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Lisbon, in addition to Montevideo and Punta Del Este, also in Uruguay. With two weekly frequencies, the flights will depart from the Porto Alegre International Airport (RS) to Rivera, positioned north of Uruguay and neighboring town of Santana do Livramento, in the intense south of Brazil.
Photo: Airbus.
César Grandolfo, Institutional Relations Manager at Azul, said in an announcement,
Since launching flights to Uruguay in 2015, Azul has carried over 700,000 customers between the 2 countries. In 2023, the airline has seen a 22% increase in passenger numbers in comparison with the previous 12 months.
Other binational airport examples on this planet
Binational airports are usually not that common on this planet. A number of the most famous examples include the Geneva International Airport (GVA) in Switzerland and the Tijuana International Airport (TIJ) in Mexico through the CBX bridge.
Photo: CBX.
Nonetheless, perhaps one of the best example of a binational airport is Euroairport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (BSL). This airport serves three countries at the identical time: Switzerland (town of Basel, of which it takes its IATA code), France (Mulhouse), and Germany (Freiburg). BSL lies entirely on French territory, although Switzerland enjoys some extraterritorial rights. The identical happens in Geneva, where the Swiss airport enjoys a French sector, in an agreement that dates back to the Nineteen Sixties.
Mexico’s Tijuana International is positioned next to the border with the US. TIJ established a $120 million project called Cross Border Xpress in 2016 to reap the benefits of its geographical location. This bridge allows direct entrance to San Diego, California, in the US.
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