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Varig
operates the largest network of airway routes in Brazil and at present flies to
110 cities together with the Rio Sul and Nordeste. Besides this, the company has
flights to more than 27 international destinations in 18 countries located in
for continents.
The company was
created in 1927, in a small room in the Associação Comercial of Porto Alegre.
Along the 77 years of existence, more than 210 million passengers have been
transported in almost 3 million flights.
Varig is
first plane was the Atlantico for nine passengers and a medium velocity of 180
km/h. At that time, no one could imagine that the company would one day have 115
planes, or even the most modern commercial plane of the world: the Boeing 777,
which has a capacity for 287 passengers and flies at a velocity of 1.000 km/h.
Since 1997, Varig
has been a partner of the Star Alliance group which incorporates another 13 very
respected companies: Lauda Air, Tyrolean Airways, Air Canada, Air New Zealand,
Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines System, Thai Airways, United Airlines, All
Nippon Airways (ANA), Companies Mexican de Aviação, Singapore Airlines, Austrian
Airlines and British Midland Airways, which gives the Brazilian the access to
more than 800 destination allover the world. The planes are also modern and
comfortable and the service on board has the approved of the most famous
international chefs.
In the same way, the
union of Varig with Rio Sul and Nordeste also has the
objective of offering an easy access to any destination in the country,
associated with the best in service and commodity for the client.
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