Flight tickets

First of all, it is still not advisable to buy Varig tickets, because they still sell lots of tickets for flights they don't fly (yet). Varig is a Brazilian flight company with still extreme financial problems. Recently they went through a restart, and hopefully soon their tickets will be trustworthy again.

Some possibilities of flight-routes:

• The obvious way to go to Porto Alegre (POA) is going to São Paulo and from there connecting to Porto Alegre. In São Paulo there are two airports: Guarulhos and Congonhas. GUA (Guarulhos), is the international one, and CNG (Congonhas) is exclusive for domestic flights. It is therefore important to be careful that, in case your connection leaves from the other airport, that you are aware of this, and that you have sufficient time for transfer. It should take around 1 hour to get from one airport to the other with the airport-bus. This bus should leave each hour, but we advice you to verify this with your flight company.
• You might find it interesting to pass by Foz de Iguaçu (which are the waterfalls at the point where the frontiers of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet each other), before or after going to Porto Alegre. There are direct flights for good prices going between Foz de Iguaçu, Porto Alegre, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In stead of going by plane, one can also go From Iguaçu to Porto Alegre by bus. The bus will take a night, but they can be very comfortable, and the price is much lower.
• It is also possible to find much cheaper tickets to Buenos Aires, which is generally around EUR 200 cheaper then flying directly to Porto Alegre. In this case, you could stay there for some days and then either take a plane to Porto Alegre or a bus (again, very nice buses for small prices!). The bus ride takes around 12 hours, meaning that when you leave in the evening from Buenos Aires, you arrive in Porto Alegre the next morning.

If you would like professional help for making flight reservation (internal flights as well as international), we can recommend you a person that we know for a long time, Loiva Bertol, who works at a tourist agency (Vasques Turismo) in Porto Alegre. We have already informed her that there might be some people from the wedding, non-Portuguese speakers, contacted her for some technical support, flight reservations etc.