Airline companies :
Available from most European capitals, Tap Air Portugal will bring you to Salvador via Lisbon.
It's certainly the shortest trip, maybe not the cheapest! However, Tap offers you the possibility to enter Brazil from Salvador and to leave it from Rio for instance.
Varig, one of the Brazilian companies is part of the star alliance group.

Varig provides direct flight leaving from Amsterdam, Frankfort, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, to Rio. Internal flights to Salvador are available from the same company.

TAM, another Brazilian companie provides departures from Miami (other US towns available in code sharing with American airlines) or Paris (other french towns in code sharing with Air France).
The company base is located in São Paulo where you will have to catch an internal flight .

Leaving from Madrid,
Air Europa, spanish company announce the best prices, we where not impresssed!
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