Trip Reports

This is Part One of a two-chapter story about international travel during times of COVID-19. This article introduces the routing, flights and reports the first leg — a domestic widebody sector from Porto Alegre to São Paulo/Guarulhos with LATAM Brasil. The second part should be published in the next few days. The sun had barely […]

Qatar Airways and its main hub Hamad International Airport recently announced an expansion to the airport that would increase its capacity in time for the 2022 World Cup and make it a destination without itself. En route to Doha, AirlineGeeks was invited by Qatar Airways to fly in its newest product, Qsuites, in business class. […]

One month after having its first Embraer E195-E2 delivered, Azul started commercial flights with the new generation regional jet on Thursday, making a roundtrip between its hub in Campinas and Brazil’s capital city of Brasília. PR-PJN, named “Sou Azul” and still the only E2 in Azul’s fleet, was designated to operate flights AZU9290/9291 VCP-BSB-VCP, only […]

Since TAM became LATAM after the merger with LAN at the start of 2016, many changes in the airline’s service have occurred. The airline that, pushed a “premium” service from the beginning, needed to adapt to the reality of the market to assure its survival. Thus, the carrier adopted low-cost practices, such as the increase […]

Since TAM became LATAM after the merger with LAN at the start of 2016, many changes in the airline’s service have occurred. The airline that, pushed a “premium” service from the beginning, needed to adapt to the reality of the market to assure its survival. Thus, the carrier adopted low-cost practices, such as the increase […]

After AirlineGeeks joined Azul Brazilian Airlines on its inaugural Airbus A330neo flight from Sao Paulo to Recife and back, it was time to test out another next-generation Airbus aircraft in the airline’s fleet, the Airbus A320neo. The next-generation variant of Airbus’ popular A320, the A320neo brings increased efficiency to the 32-year-old airliner. Azul started operating […]

Azul Brazilian Airlines’ first international flights were announced in April 2014, only six years into its operation. Fueling the international expansion were seven secondhand Airbus A330-200s, a type still used today, and an order for five Airbus A350-900 XWBs. The Brazilian economy was soaring, the Brazilian real was well appreciated in relation to the dollar […]

Chicago became the newest North American recipient of TAP Air Portugal service as part of the airline’s ongoing efforts to double capacity to and from North America by the end of the year. The new service sees TAP flying to the Windy City five times per week, with flights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays Saturdays and […]

While the typical U.S. traveler may complain about the decline in airline competition in the mainland United States over the last few years, Hawaiians have experienced even more challenges. Carriers like go!, Aloha and Island Air have collapsed, paving the way for Hawaiian Airlines to stand mostly uncontested on inter-island routes. Although my family originally was […]

Towards the middle of October, my family and I started to flesh out our plans for Thanksgiving. With my sister and I attending college in Boca Raton, Florida, and the rest of our family living in New Jersey, it meant we had to start searching for airfare to get home for the much-anticipated break from […]