Former publisher turns to travel.
Essence magazine co-founder and president emeritus Clarence O. Smith launched Avocet avocet (ăv`əsĕt), common name for a long-legged wading bird about 15 to 18 in. (37.5–45 cm) long, related to the snipe and belonging to the same family as the stilt. Travel in early 2003 with $2.5 million in startup costs. Smith and his seven employees have launched the nation's first nonstop air charter service between the U.S. and Bahia Bahia, state, BrazilBahia (bäē`yə), state (1991 pop. 11,867,991), 216,612 sq mi (559,921 sq km), E Brazil, on the Atlantic Ocean. Salvador (also called Bahia) is the capital.
Bahia, city, BrazilBahia, city, Brazil: see Salvador, Brazil., Brazil the third leading tourist destination in Brazil according to the American Society of Travel Agents. Avocet's first nonstop chartered flight from New York (JFK) to Salvador da Bahia was launched at the end of April on VARIG Airlinesm, the largest air transportation air transportation: see aviation. company in Latin America.
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