{"id":796,"date":"2014-04-23T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theme-sphere.com\/smart-mag\/?p=796"},"modified":"2015-06-16T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T04:16:00","slug":"brazilian-airline-azul-to-lease-11-jets-for-flight-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/23\/brazilian-airline-azul-to-lease-11-jets-for-flight-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian airline Azul to lease 11 jets for flights to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2327\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nws_civ_140423_01-001.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2327\" src=\"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nws_civ_140423_01-001.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9Azul Linhas A\u00e9reas\" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nws_civ_140423_01-001.jpg 400w, https:\/\/latinaero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nws_civ_140423_01-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/latinaero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nws_civ_140423_01-001-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Azul Linhas A\u00e9reas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras has unveiled plans to lease 11 wide-body aircraft to be used for direct flights to U.S. destinations starting in 2015.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Azul plans to run between three and four flights daily from Viracopos-Campinas International Airport outside Sao Paulo to three U.S. destinations: Miami, Orlando and New York. Those will be the airline&#8217;s first-ever international routes.<\/p>\n<p>The company will lease six Airbus A330-200s, to be received beginning this year, and five Airbus A350-900s, which are considered the most modern in the commercial aviation industry and are to be delivered starting in 2017, Azul said in a press release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Azul, which termed the expansion an &#8220;important milestone in its history,&#8221; currently operates a fleet of 136 smaller aircraft used exclusively for domestic flights.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2008 and controlled by Brazilian-born American entrepreneur and JetBlue founder David Neeleman, Azul became Brazil&#8217;s third-largest airline in 2012 &#8211; after TAM and Gol &#8211; with its acquisition of Brazilian regional carrier Trip Linhas Aereas.<\/p>\n<p>Azul operates 876 daily flights to 104 destinations in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said eight of the new aircraft would be leased from International Lease Finance Corporation, a leader in the commercial aircraft leasing and remarketing industry.<\/p>\n<p>It is still conducting studies pertaining to the lease of the other three Airbus jets.\u00a0The company added that it will need to hire 1,000 employees to service the new international flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras has unveiled plans to lease 11 wide-body aircraft to be used for direct flights to U.S. destinations starting in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}