Direct London-Boa Vista flights to begin in July
 

British airline Teleticket has unleashed a massive Internet advertising campaign to announce that, beginning July 10, it will carry out charter flights from London’s Gatwick airport to the island of Boa Vista. Teleticket’s web site is already selling tickets for London/Boa Vista/London flights beginning July 10. The flights will take place every Tuesday and have a round-trip ticket price of 299 pounds. The one-week tourist package for Boa Vista, which is presented as an island replete with sea turtles, sand dunes and traditional music, is being commercialized by Stuart Parish of Travelocity, which compares Cape Verde to the Canary Islands 20 years ago.


The one-hour time difference between Cape Verde and the UK and the fact that the euro is becoming increasingly accepted as a currency of payment in the archipelago are among the factors that, in the view of Travelocity, make “Cape Verde an attractive tourist destination for the British.”

Boa Vista’s new international airport has not yet been opened. The structure began to be expanded more than a year ago, but the first date announced for its opening - August 2006 - has long since come and gone. Cape Verde’s Minister of Infrastructures, Transportation and the Sea, Manuel Inocêncio Sousa, guaranteed Monday that the country’s two new international airports, on the islands of Boa Vista and São Vicente, would both begin operations soon, although he declined to offer a precise date.


Source: ASemanaOnline (May 09, 2007)