Low-cost carrier (LCC) Sky Airline is to start flying from Santiago de Chile to Belo Horizonte and Brasília later this year, according to the latest schedules published on Cirium’s Diio Mi application.
These flights are not yet on sale on the airline’s website. In principle, they are to be flown seasonally. According to data available on Cirium, the flight to Brasília will be operated between June 16 and September 29, while the flight to Belo Horizonte will be operated between June 15 and September 28.
The Brazilian capital will be connected to its Chilean counterpart on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, while the capital of Minas Gerais will be served on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Flights, according to the data loaded on Cirium’s schedules, are to be operated by Sky Airline’s fleet of Airbus A320neo, with 186 seats in a single-class configuration, of which the airline operates 25.
According to historical schedule data by Cirium, Sky Airline is to be the single airline connecting the Brazilian and Chilean capitals nonstop. The last one to do it was LATAM Airlines, a flight that was started in October 2019, but halted in March 2020 with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Belo Horizonte, meanwhile, already has nonstop flights to Santiago de Chile, with three weekly frequencies with LATAM.
The two cities will thus become Sky Airline’s sixth and seventh destinations in Brazil, joining Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro/Galeão, Salvador and São Paulo/Guarulhos (including flights operated by subsidiary Sky Airline Perú).
Both Chile and Brazil are important markets for each other’s tourism industries. Chileans are the third nationality with the most visits to Brazil by tourism, with 408,803 visitors in 2023, according to Embratur (excluding data for December, not yet available). During the same period in Chile, Brazilians only trailed Argentines by number of visitors, with 436,330, according to Sernatur.
