LATAM will begin operating the Florianópolis-Lima route with three weekly flights on December 2nd of this year. In the coming days, the company will begin selling tickets for its second international route in Santa Catarina, following the well-established Florianópolis-Santiago route, on latam.com and other channels. LATAM expects to transport up to 43 engers per year on its new operation between Brazil and Peru, which already has regular operations São Paulo-Lima, Rio de Janeiro-Lima, Brasília-Lima, Porto Alegre-Lima and Curitiba-Lima.
The announcement of the new route was made on Monday night (April 14) at Casa d'Agronômica, the Official Residence of the Governor of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, and was attended by Jorginho Mello, Governor of Santa Catarina; Topázio Neto, Mayor of Florianópolis; Tomé Barros Monteiro Franca, National Secretary of Civil Aviation; Ricardo Gesse, CEO of Zurich Airport Brazil; and Eduardo Macedo, Head of Public Affairs at LATAM Brazil.
The Lima-Florianópolis flight will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and the return flights will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays on aircraft from the Airbus A319 family (with capacity for 12 engers in the Economy cabin and 126 in Economy) or Airbus A320 (with capacity for 168 engers in the Economy cabin and 8 in Economy) with an average duration of 5 hours. It will depart at 23:40 p.m. (local time) from Lima and at 7:10 a.m. (local time) from Florianópolis. Compared to a trip with a connection at Guarulhos Airport, the new route will reduce the average travel time between the capital of Santa Catarina and Peru by 3 hours.
This is the fifth regular international destination offered by Floripa Airport, which already has year-round routes to Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Lisbon and North America and the Caribbean, via Panama.
LATAM currently operates more than 110 flights per week at Florianópolis airport, with flights to Brasília (7 per week), São Paulo/Congonhas (average of 50 per week), São Paulo/Guarulhos (42 per week) and Santiago de Chile (currently 9 per week, increasing to 21 in the high winter season in June).
