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An ongoing call by US mainline carriers for the country's government to re-look at its Open Skies deals with certain Gulf nations has stirred up strong reactions in the industry, even as some parties choose to stay out of the controversial issue altogether.
The closest thing to a common cause for international expansion is the depreciation of some currencies. Mexico’s peso and Brazil’s real fell 6% and 9% respectively last year. Both are stabilising, but LCCs in Mexico and Brazil have launched or expanded cross-border routes in a search for hard, or least harder currencies, than their own. Nonetheless, the main reasons for cross-border growth lie in Latin America’s diverse dynamics.
In a quiet office in a small Connecticut town, the plan to transform Brazil’s Azul into an international airline is taking shape. Seat maps of its newly acquired Airbus narrowbodies are laid out on a conference room table, and the carrier is days away from taking delivery of its second Airbus A330-200.
