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TAM Begins Flights to Miami and Paris from Belo Horizonte

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

September 26, 2008

thomas

Frequencies depart daily from the Tancredo Neves International Airport
(Confins)

SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TAM (NYSE: TAM;
Bovespa: TAMM4) began operating two new international routes last weekend
from the Belo Horizonte Airport (Confins). TAM began offering daily flights
from the capital of Minas Gerais to Miami (USA), with a stop in Rio de
Janeiro, and to Paris (France) with a stop in Sao Paulo. “These flights are
a major step towards strengthening the Belo Horizonte Airport (Confins) and
consolidating it as an international hub,” said Captain David Barioni Neto,
president of TAM.

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The frequency to Miami is operated from the Tom Jobim Airport (Galeao),
in Rio de Janeiro, using a Boeing 767-300 with capacity of up to 205
passengers in Executive and Economy class configuration. The Paris
frequency will operate from Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos Airport using a modern
Airbus A330 aircraft configured for three classes, replacing the MD-11
currently being used that should be returned this year. The Belo
Horizonte-Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte-Sao Paulo legs are operated in
both directions using Airbus A320 aircraft.

The flight to Miami departs from Tancredo Neves International Airport
in Belo Horizonte (Confins) at 7:30 p.m., arriving at Tom Jobim Airport
(Galeao) in Rio de Janeiro at 8:25 p.m., from where it departs at 11:05
p.m. for Miami International Airport, landing at 6:30 a.m. the following
day. The return trip departs Miami at 10:05 p.m. for Rio de Janeiro
(Galeao), arriving at 7:10 a.m., departing at 9:30 a.m. for Belo Horizonte
(Confins) and arriving at 10:35 a.m. The roundtrip price between Belo
Horizonte and Miami will begin at US$ 829 for tickets issued until December
4.

The flight to Paris departs Belo Horizonte (Confins) at 7:25 p.m. and
lands in Sao Paulo (Guarulhos) at 8:40 p.m., departing at 11 p.m. and
arriving in Paris (Charles de Gaulle Airport) the following day at 3:20
p.m. The return flight departs Paris at 11 p.m. and arrives in Sao Paulo
(Guarulhos) the following day at 5:40 a.m., departing at 8:30 a.m. for Belo
Horizonte and landing at 9:35 a.m.

With these new frequencies, TAM will operate three international
flights daily from Belo Horizonte International Airport. Besides the
flights to Miami and Paris, TAM has been operating a daily frequency since
November 2007 between Belo Horizonte and Buenos Aires (Argentina), with a
stop in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.

“These international flights are an unequivocal demonstration of TAM’s
wager on the development of the Belo Horizonte market,” said TAM’s vice
president for Commercial and Planning, Paulo Castello Branco. In addition
to international operations, the company also has invested in the creation
of new domestic flights directly connecting the Minas Gerais capital to
destinations in the south of the country, without stopping in Sao Paulo.

For example, since August, the flight that departs Porto Alegre (Rio
Grande do Sul) at 7:30 a.m. lands in Curitiba at 8:35 a.m., and then
departs at 9:15 a.m. for Belo Horizonte (Confins), arriving at 11:00 a.m.
In the opposite direction, the flight departs Confins at 8:00 p.m. and
lands in Curitiba at 9:45 p.m., departing at 10:20 p.m. for Porto Alegre,
where it arrives at 11:25 p.m. The flight that departs Belo Horizonte
(Confins) at 12 noon and lands in Sao Paulo (Guarulhos) at 1:20 p.m. allows
for a number of domestic and international connections operated by TAM and
partner airlines. In the opposite direction, the flight leaves Sao Paulo at
6:05 p.m. and arrives in the Minas Gerais capital at 7:20 p.m.

Note: the Confins-Rio de Janeiro (Galeao)-Confins and Confins-Sao Paulo
(Guarulhos)-Confins routes are operated with Airbus A320 aircraft.

SOURCE TAM

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