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A Different Azul Goes To Toledo, Not Brazil

March 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM | by | Comments (2)

Usually when we are chatting about Azul we’re talking about an airline south of the equator. However, there’s a new guy in town, and he’s showing some love for the Azul name—unfortunately his new destinations are a little less interesting.

Air Azul is looking to fly from Toledo, Ohio to Newark thrice a week. Don’t expect in flight television here, but they will be offering some cheap flights aboard their 737-800s. Promotional tickets will start at $49 each way, but we can only assume this starting price will be supplemented with add-ons—like a first bag fee of $10.

The airline is a public charter type carrier, and is being operated by Sun Country Airlines. It’s technically a new airline, but also kind of not. Once things get underway, they’ll look to expand a little bit. Newark will be the departure point for destinations like Lansing, Michigan, South Bend, Indiana, Rockford, Illinois, and Melbourne, Florida among others. Again, not exactly the most exciting line-up.

Air Azul will officially kick off June 1, but for now you can catch a flight with them if you really want to. They do offer normal scheduled service from Somerset, Kentucky to Nashville via cute little commuter jets. Although honestly, you could probably drive between the two cities in just over a couple hours.

So far we haven’t heard anything from Azul regarding the name. We’re thinking that they don’t have too much to worry about, but if Air Azul starts to fly to Brazil then we totally expect a fare war—and possibly a lawsuit. PS. Seriously, what is up with using various interpretations of the color "Blue" for airline names? Can we start doing something different--Purple Air maybe? Run by Prince?

Related Stories:
·Air Azul [Official Site]
·Initial Flights From Toledo To Metro N.Y. To Cost $49 One Way [ToledoBlade]
·New Routes [Jaunted]

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yes

I am taking this in summer. Family has listened to me gripe about lack of air routes between NYC and Northwest Ohio for too long; they're throwing this in my face.
JetSetCD on March 18, 2009 at 6:36 PM #Permalink

Toledo

Yea! Finally Toledo is on the map. Toledo deserves an airline which flies to the east coast.
catawba57 on March 19, 2009 at 2:39 PM #Permalink

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