Departures
Pictured: Opposite page: the colourful streets of Salvador, Brazil; Below: Chilean capital city, Santiago, set beneath the Andes; Bottom: Colonial-style streets of Cartagena, Colombia
Argentina Buenos Aires While the capital of Argentina has suffered from the universal recession, with many industries becoming unprofitable in the face of foreign competition, the country’s rich natural resources have enabled others to prosper, including the chemicals and energy production sectors. Buenos Aires, on the south eastern coast of South America, has also seen growth in the services sector, its banking system important to Argentina’s financial stability, along with agriculture, tourism and oil refining. British Airways flies from London Heathrow to Buenos Aires seven times a week; Air Europa flies from London Gatwick, via Madrid, daily except for Saturdays. From Madrid, Iberia offers 21 flights a week; Aerolineas Argentinas operates seven. Services elsewhere in mainland Europe include seven flights a week from Paris Charles de Gaulle with Air France, while Lufthansa has six departures a week out of Frankfurt.
Brazil Rio de Janeiro Celebrated as a tourist hot spot, the one-time capital of Brazil will receive a further boost when its hosts the Summer Olympics in 2016. Meanwhile, the economy has sprinted ahead of both India and China’s in terms of GDP, its mainstays financial services and the production of most of Brazil’s oil. Many multi- national corporations have headquarters in Rio, and the industries include processed foods, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, ships, textiles and furniture.
British Airways and TAM Airlines each serve
Rio three times a week from Heathrow. From Madrid, Iberia flies daily, while Lufthansa has a daily departure from Frankfurt, and Air France 12 services a week out of Paris CDG.
São Paulo The largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, São Paulo is big in every sense. It is responsible for around half of Brazil’s GDP, hosts 90,000 conventions, conferences and trade shows a year, and has the second biggest economy in Latin America after Mexico. This is based on machinery, the aviation sector, automobile industries, financial services, textiles, orange growing, sugar cane and coffee. Both British Airways and TAM depart Heathrow for São Paulo daily. Iberia flies 14 times a week from Madrid, Swiss has a daily frequency from Zurich, and Air France offers 12 flights a week from Paris CDG. KLM operates daily out of Amsterdam Schiphol, and Lufthansa flies once a day from Frankfurt and five times a week from Munich.
Chile Santiago Located between the Andes and the Pacific, Chile’s capital is the driving force behind the best-managed economy in South America. Enjoying steady growth, welcoming foreign
investment, Santiago is Chile’s industrial and financial centre, a modern metropolis with an impressive high-rise skyline – it’s a formula that has attracted many multinational companies to base their regional headquarters in the city. The services sector contributes 76 per cent of regional GDP, complemented by the machinery, electronics, food processing and chemicals industries. With no direct services from the UK to Santiago, the most convenient routing is via mainland Europe. Air France flies five times a week from Paris CDG, while from Madrid, Iberia departs eight times a week and LAN Airlines has a double-daily frequency.
Colombia Bogota At an altitude of over 2,500 metres above sea level, Bogota is the third-highest capital city in the world. Ranked as one of the most influential financial centres in Latin America, noted nowadays for political and economic stability, it is the regional base for several multinational companies. The city is also Colombia’s industrial hub, exporting textiles, agricultural produce, chemicals, crude oil, coal, pharmaceuticals, coffee and metals. Air France flies daily from Paris CDG to Bogota. Otherwise, flights from Europe depart Madrid, Iberia flying eight times a week and Avianca nine times weekly.
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