But they're going to GRU twice daily not GIG, which is once a day. Nice to see AA have the competition. ATC unionized workers have been reeking havoc on traffic to GRU lately. Northeast from ATL is unlikely whether they analyze it or not....
according to route planning sources in ATL.
My only point was that within a 2 yr span, Delta went from only having 7 weekly routes to Brasil to now having 21 weekly routes. JFK to GRU makes sense, as does the ATL-GIG and ATL-GRU route.
It makes sense that Sao Paolo has two flights daily, and not Rio. Besides the significant amount of business transacted in Sao Paolo, there's the population of approx. 18 million people. Easy market to target.
GRU has always had labor issues. This is nothing new. 4 yrs ago, we got caught in the middle of one of their infamous walkouts, that time it was the federal marshalls. We landed at 7:00 am in Sao Paolo. We cleared customs after 12:00 pm.
Delta or any other airline getting extra routes to Colombia or Brasil is possible, labor issues or not.