2006 General Reports

[Track Star]

Hello Fellow Mongers,

I heard this joke on the Jay Leno show and I feel that is appropriate to share it with people who are genuinely interested in screwing.

"I liked Bill Clinton because he screwed only one individual at a time while Geoge Bush screws the entire nation!"

Track Star

[BootyTapper]

This is not good!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060515/...olice_attacked

I have been watching it on RedeTV and reading about it in O Dia. Nothing about it looks good. The number increased by 40 since yesterday because in O Dia they said it was 30 people. Most of the dead were police and federal agents, I think it was only 5 gang members dead. I pray this does not spread to Rio because its all over Sao Paolo right now.

[California Guy]

This is not good!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060515/...olice_attacked

[Member #4156]

This week (go back to the weekly chart is sitting on a major reversal point Ive drawn a time fib projection and you can see the previous swing hi/lo 2.618 projection ends here – bottom line – its going up soon…(four hour chart on far left shows a head and shoulders reversal that means a reversal may be install ….lets see what happens next week or two).

Looks like you were right!!!

[Carlos Primeros]

A week after Carnival I had to fly from Rio to Europe on a very urgent business.
TAP, Lufthansa and Iberia had been solidly booked, all classes. Only Varig had some first-class seats and I had to buy a first-class ticket.

They used a 767 for the flight and my god - they even did not have the fist-class cabin cleaned!!!! My seat was stained with old food and drinks!!! - I paid over 4000 USD for a rotten, stinky, dirty seat with a very bad service.

Never again Varig. Stay as far as possible away from this airline.

Carlos

[Mangera]

The Real hit 2.09 for every dollar today. Thank goodness, hope this trend continues. Its been on a downward trend for a couple of weeks, its about time the bleeding comes to a stop. Laters!

[Exec Talent]

I too had a problem while traveling on Varig but it was more because of the Federal Police strike than anything they had done. Keep in mind that they partner with United, so should something happen do what I did and insist on being placed on a United flight.

[Exec Talent]

Not sure whether Avianca is a viable option flying out of the States, though. Don't see why they shouldn't be.
EA

I have taken Avianca from both Ft. Lauderdale and Miami with stops in Bogota then Sao Paulo and Rio. Everything went well.

[George90]

Going to Recife during the first week of July and finding anything from LAX to REC is pretty expensive. Around 1200-1400. Anybody have any ideas on better pricing.

Thanks

I have flown to Recife several time on TAM from Miami. Over the past year, the fare has been around $1,100 for 2 week advance purchase. I once saw a fare of $750 at 4 weeks advance purchase but I did not have firm travel dates and could not take advantage of it. Flying from the west coast, which is much farther, you could expect the fare to be higher.

Our summer is the low season for Brazil, and fares are generally lower. You can find some bargains until early August.

[Helpmann]

Not sure whether Avianca is a viable option flying out of the States, though. Don't see why they shouldn't be.

EA

I'm flying to Rio via Avianca from New York (JFK) in a couple of weeks.

I hope it works out.


-Helpmann

[Monger 3]

For those of you living in Brasil, what do you hear about GOL? I understand that they're like the Jet Blue of Brasil--and their stock is up more than 40% over the last month or so.

Me and some friends used it from Salvador to Rio...no stops...and only about 200R each way...with exchange rate at 2.45ish...easy and accomodating...

TAM has also been good for intra-Brasil flights too...

[El Austriaco]

Last time I flew to Rio de Janeiro (February 2006), I was booked on an Avianca flight from Mexico City via Bogotá. I had already been on exactly the same flight in 2005, without any problems. This time, the Mexico City to Bogotá segment was actually operated by Mexicana. Due to a snowstorm in Montreal, the Mexicana plane was 5 hours late in arriving in Mexico City, as a result of which I definitely would have missed my connection in Bogotá. Ultimately, they booked me on a Varig flight to Sao Paulo later that day. Fine with me, except for the five hour wait at Guarulhos for the 45-minute hop to Rio de Janeiro. All in all, I arrived in Rio about six hours later than scheduled. So my Varig experience wasn't all that bad.

The return trip with Avianca was without a hitch. Rio to Sao Paulo (just a stopover) to Bogotá, connect to Mexico City.

Not sure whether Avianca is a viable option flying out of the States, though. Don't see why they shouldn't be.

EA

[Bubba Boy]

Gol are ok, nice new boeing planes, be careful when using then for anything other than short hops. The longer flights will stop at one place or many places. A friend of mine went to the North and it took him 16 hours, stopped every city.

http://www.voegol.com.br/

They have real cheap flights between Sao Paulo and Rio from and to the international airports. Domestic to Domestic airports are not that cheap.

[Track Star]

hello track star here,

brazil-mongers of the world do yourself a favor and avoid varig.

last fall i got back to seattle 27 hours delayed because of those fuckers.

they held the international flight from rio to lima, peru with stop in sao paulo for an extra 1 1/2 hr to get more people onboard.

the result was that i missed my usa flight to usa that nite. got booked on another usa flight even later that evening. sat on the plane for 4 1/2hr because of technical problems and that flight got cancelled.

had to stay over that nite in sao paulo and fly out the next evening. arrived in seattle 27hrs late tired, pooped and with very low regard for varig which initially caused the whole problem because of their rio departure delay.

they are about to kick the bucket. not good to do any ticketing via them right now.

just my cents worth.

track star

[Royalflush]

For those of you living in Brasil, what do you hear about GOL? I understand that they're like the Jet Blue of Brasil--and their stock is up more than 40% over the last month or so.