brazilian standby or courier flights

[tartan-healy]

Does anyone know how I go about getting a standby flight or courier flight from sao paulo or Rio ?

[dzug]

Standby - turn up at the airport, pay full fare and you'll be on the first available flight.

Courier - unlikely as a one-off. The courier companies want reliable staff they can trust for repeated work, not one-offs they've never seen before and will never see again.

[KARL]

Years ago I did a courier run for a company who much more recently were still accepting offers of such willing bodies. Since then again I have seen fellow passengers do these trips but unfortunately I am not sure what the position is on getting involved. I think the people I went for/with were called Polo Express and operated out of Heathrow. What the difference might now be on fares (the passenger paid but somewhat lower than the going rate) now that there is such a variation, I do not know but the impression I got well after I flew was that the price did not look particularly attractive. I flew on BA long haul but I would not expect them to offer you the sort of information you are looking for. I would keep looking.

[dzug]

A possible suggestion - find a travel agency in either city that has Portuguese migrants as their customer base. They may have access to cheaper fares than normal - or maybe charter flights.