Cabo Verde Airlines is resuming flights to the United States, with a route that many people may struggle to make sense of (but as you’d expect, there’s a reason).
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Yields will likely be helped this summer with Cape Verdeans travelling to watch their country compete at the World Cup for the first time.
Also, Ben you better be travelling at the moment, because you are posting this really, really early for US Eastern time, even for you.
@ Willmo -- Hah, indeed, am in Europe and heading home shortly. About an hour too early for me otherwise!
As a top M&A lawyer I’ve been in my office for 20 hours straight at this point, all in service of my clients.
Lol. 20 hours straight.
When youre 70 (if you live that long) you will realize only a total loser would do that.
Didn't SATA Internacional also fly transatlantically from Providence, or was that from Boston instead?
I took a flight on Cabo Verde Airlines when they tried their dramatic expansion in 2019 (trying to replicate the Icelandair model with West Africa - they even had ex-FI 757s). I know the pandemic certainly was the final nail in that, but it was a pretty unpleasant experience all-around: Staff didn't know what was going on, there was no information about when planes would depart [we ended up being about 6 hours late], or even what gate to go to. The flight had no wifi, no entertainment, and only a single cold meal.
Anyone surprised by this route has not spent much time in RI or MA. It's not just RI with a large population - southern MA and parts of the Cape also have huge populations (Portuguese as well, which is why Azores flies there too).
They flew to PVD until 2019, they still fly to BOS. I believe they changed names from SATA to Azores in 2015ish.
By the way Ben, in terms of hotels that have stuff for kids, the Hilton Cabo Verde has a lovely pool with a shallow little area where my girls did "mudskipping" when they could splash without going into the deep, and a kids club!
Right- precisely why they're launching the flights shortly before the World Cup begins. Shouldn't be too hard to make 1-2 flights per week work either out of PVD, provided the costs are substantially lower than BOS.
I flew with them in 2022 between LIS and VXE, and it was bad.
It was cheaper than TAP but on the outbound flight, their only aircraft was out of service, so they had to replace it with a Spanish charter plane. On the return, the flight was delayed by 10 hours and included an additional stopover. They didn't bother to respect EU261, and there was no customer service support. Staff wasn't friendly.
@Nic123 not sure how the airline handled all that, but to be fair to them, they're not subject to EU261 on flights *to* the EU, but on on flights *from* the EU. Only EU airlines are subject to both.
TF Green (PVD) certainly serves Providence but the airport itself is physically located in Warwick, RI. Saying it is "in" Providence is not correct.
How is this ''unique''? There's literally a reason for it to exist, stop trying to attention seek.
It’s an all economy aircraft so it seems like a long time to be in a main cabin - not even premium economy and usually airlines like this are disproportionately expensive
Interesting - a word was auto-dropped from my post. Trying one more time with different punctuation marks: A sentence "Rhode Island has a huge `anything` population" made me chuckle...
Since Cabo Verde is 3 hours ahead of Providence, it's a 7-hour flight from Providence to Sal, and and 7.5 hours from Sal to Providence.
To be fair, Mass has way more Cape Verdeans than RI - it's just that they live pretty close to the border, plus I would imagine lower airport costs and an easier operation at PVD compared to BOS.