Planes
It's hardly surprising that a country the size of Brazil relies on air travel a good deal; in some parts of Amazonia air links are more important than either the roads or rivers. Any town has at least an airstrip, and all cities have airports, usually some distance from the city but not always: Santos Dumont in Rio, Guarulhos in Sao Paulo and Guararapes in Recife are all pretty central. The main domestic carriers are VASP ( www.vasp.com.br), Varig ( www.varig.com.br), Transbrasil ( www.transbrasil.com.br) and TAM ( www.tam.com.br); important regional airlines include the Varig subsidiaries RioSul (mainly serving the south) and RioNordeste (covering the Amazon region), together with Viabrasil , which connects Sao Paulo with Fortaleza, Natal, Joao Pessoa and Recife in the Northeast. Flying to the Northeast or Amazonia from southern Brazil can be tiresome, as many of these long-distance routes are no more than glorified bus runs, stopping everywhere before heading north again. In planning your itinerary, it's a good idea to check carefully how many times a plane stops - for example, between Sao Paulo and Fortaleza a flight may stop as many as four times or as few as one. On scheduled domestic flights you should check in an hour before take-off, but expect delays if the plane you're catching is arriving from elsewhere. A word of warning : in many parts of Amazonia air travel in small planes, or aerotaxis , is very common - the regional word for these flights is teco-teco. Before taking one, you should be aware that the airstrips are often dangerous, the planes routinely fly overloaded and are not reliably maintained, and no checks are made on the qualifications of pilots - some don't have any.
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