Aug. 07, 2023
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Azores Airways slated to fly transatlantic flights from Porto to 2 US cities
Azores Airways, a small Portuguese service, is seeking to additional increase its footprint in North America.
Beginning June 2024, the service plans to fly between Porto — one among Portugal’s largest cities and main vacationer locations — and three North American locations: Boston, New York Metropolis and Toronto. Flights will function on its Airbus A321neo fleet. Azores Airways will function every of those routes as soon as per week, in response to Aeroroutes, which first reported the information.
Azores Airways at present flies to 11 North American locations from the Azores, an autonomous archipelago of Portugal. In accordance with Aviation Week, the brand new routes mark the primary time Azores Airways will function transatlantic flights from mainland Portugal since 2017 after it axed routes from Boston and Toronto to Lisbon.
With these transatlantic flights to North America, Azores Airways hopes it may possibly faucet into the sky-high demand for worldwide journey in North America, particularly as Portugal has change into an more and more common vacationer vacation spot.
At the moment, the service operates routes from Boston, New York Metropolis and Toronto from Ponta Delgada, the capital of the Azores, and Terceira, an island within the archipelago. Azores Airways additionally flies from New York Metropolis to Funchal — the capital of Madeira, one other autonomous area in Portugal.
Flights from Porto’s Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport (OPO) to Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) begin June 1, 2024; flights from OPO to Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS) start June 4, 2024; and flights from OPO to John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) begin June 6, 2024.
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Right here is Azores Airways’ schedule for the brand new routes (all instances are native):
- OPO to BOS: departing at 6:25 a.m. and arriving at 9:35 a.m.
- BOS to OPO: departing at 11:05 a.m. and arriving at 11 p.m.
- OPO to JFK: departing at 6 a.m. and arriving at 9:35 a.m.
- JFK to OPO: departing at 11:05 a.m. and arriving at 11:35 p.m.
- OPO to YYZ: departing at 6 a.m. and arriving at 9:35 a.m.
- YYZ to OPO: departing at 11:05 a.m. and arriving at 11:50 p.m.
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