I see a newspaper in today's online edition of El Universal newspaper (in Spanish) reporting the approval of a new tourist/air route . . . connecting Mexico City and Toluca with Nigeria and Angola. I must be missing something in this story, as I don't think there's too much tourism/business interest between these countries - not enough to warrant 7 flights a week. Maybe someone else around here sees what I'm missing.
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altahabana
The article is about new routes the Brasilian airline is opening this spring. They are about to begin flying Sao Paulo to the DF five times a week and twice a week to Toluca. The African flights referred to in the article are from Sao Paulo to Angola and Nigeria and do not involve Mexico.
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longford
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<hr>La aerolínea brasileña OceanAir, controladora de la colombiana Avianca, anunció hoy que fue autorizada por la Agencia Nacional de Aviación Civil (ANAC) de Brasil para operar vuelos a México y África.<hr></blockquote>
I suppose the indication of what was happening was given away in the opening sentence of that article, which I misread. Thanks for the correction/explanation.
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richtx1
Angola, Nigeria and Mexico are three of the major oil producing counties as well. I'd imagine these would be more business travellers than tourists.
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gbbackpack
I for one would be very interested in a Toluca- Luanda (Angola) route, as I live in Mexico and have relatives in Namibia! But I don´t think I will have many people sharing that interest!
I hope the Brazil - Mexico flights become cheaper that way, because that IS also a tourist route (and a connection to Africa from Latin America). Brazil-Angola is no surprise at all, because of trade connections and the shared Portuguese national language.
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