US Airways filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation for the rights to operate daily, year-round service between the airline’s hubs in Charlotte, N.C., and Philadelphia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. US Airways will begin service between Charlotte and Sao Paulo on June 8 using frequencies leased from another carrier. An award of rights for Charlotte – Sao Paulo flights will ensure US Airways avoids a service interruption due to the frequency lease terminating prior to Open Skies between the United States and Brazil commencing in 2015.
US Airways’ proposed service between Philadelphia and Sao Paulo would be the airline’s third daily flight to South America and would complement its existing service to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro from its Charlotte hub.
Customers in more than 80 cities in the United States will have one-stop access to Sao Paulo through the airline’s Charlotte hub.
US Airways’ proposed new service from Philadelphia would provide 75 communities easy one-stop access to Sao Paulo.
Additionally, the new flight would give customers in 47 communities a second, one-stop option to Brazil’s largest city. Each year more than 21 million US Airways customers fly through Philadelphia International Airport, which is the airline’s international gateway and second largest hub with 437 daily flights to communities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Central America
