HOUSTON, TX - Kamfanin jiragen sama na Continental ya sanar a yau cewa ya shigar da takardar neman aiki tare da Ma'aikatar Sufuri (DOT) don yin aiki na yau da kullum, sabis na shekara-shekara tsakanin cibiyar Houston a Bush Intercontinental Airport da Rio De Janeiro da sabis na jirgin sama tsakanin New Orleans. da Rio de Janeiro fara Yuni 2009.
John Slater, mataimakin shugaban ma'aikatan Continental, tallace-tallacen Latin Amurka da Caribbean ya ce "Muna ci gaba da ganin buƙatu mai ƙarfi daga abokan cinikinmu na yau da kullun, sabis mara tsayawa tsakanin waɗannan mahimman kasuwannin mai guda biyu." "Sabon jirgin zai taimaka mana da sabis ɗin da muke da shi tsakanin Amurka da Brazil kuma zai ba da ƙarin dama ga masu yawon bude ido da ke tafiya tsakanin biranen biyu."
Continental ya ba da shawarar yin aiki da sabis na yau da kullun ta amfani da Boeing 767-200 akan hanya, tare da kujeru 25 a BusinessFirst da kujeru 149 a cikin tattalin arziki. Jirgin da aka tsara ba zai tsaya ba zai kasance lokacin bayar da hanyoyin haɗin jirgin da ya dace a cibiyar Houston ta Continental zuwa fiye da biranen 104 a duk faɗin Amurka, Kanada, Turai, Asiya, da Latin Amurka.
A halin yanzu kamfanin jirgin yana aiki da sabis na yau da kullun ba tare da tsayawa ba tsakanin cibiyar Continental ta New York a filin jirgin sama na Newark Liberty International da Filin jirgin saman Guarulhos na São Paulo da tsakanin Houston da São Paulo, tare da ci gaba da sabis zuwa Rio de Janeiro. Bugu da ƙari, kamfanin jirgin zai yi aiki sau uku, mako-mako, ba da tsayawa ba tsakanin Houston da Rio de Janeiro daga 17 ga Disamba, 2008 zuwa Fabrairu 28, 2009.