The Benefits & Challenges Of The Avianca – Viva Merger
Last Friday, Avianca and Viva announced they would join forces. What are the benefits? What does this mean for the Latin American region? Avianca and Viva Colombia shareholders decided to jointly operate under the same Avianca Group holding last Friday. The announcement shocked the Latin American airline industry in the latest...
New Venezuela-Cuba Tourist Air Route To Be Inaugurated
The Aerolineas Estelar flight covers the Havana-Santiago de Cuba route and Porlamar, the urban and economic center in Margarita Island, and leaves Caracas for the Venezuelan island this Monday. From there, it will leave for Varadero on May 3 to transport the participants at the International Tourism Fair, FitCuba 2022, GTN’s manager...
New Grenada Flights to Debut in June
Grenada will host new nonstop airline service this summer when American Airlines resumes weekly flights from Charlotte, N.C.’s Douglas International Airport to Grenada’s Maurice Bishop International Airport on June 4. The new American flights complement the carrier’s airlift current, daily nonstop service between Grenada and Miami...
LATAM Launches Its 50th Destination In Brazil
LATAM Brasil has plans to expand to five more destinations this year. LATAM Brasil inaugurated service to Sinop in the State of Mato Grosso on Tuesday. The flight was significant for the airline because it marked the milestone of LATAM Brasil’s 50th domestic destination. LATAM Brasil reaches 50 destinations On Tuesday night, LATAM...
Arajet Wants To Be The Airline That Connects The Dominican Republic With Jamaica Non-Stop
Faced with the plans that the aeronautical sector of the Dominican Republic has to arrange a direct flight with Jamaica, Arajet seeks to be the airline that assumes said operation. For this, Víctor Pacheco Méndez, president of the board of directors of Arajet, held a meeting with the Dominican ambassador in Jamaica, Angie Shakira...
Air Century Maintains Three Weekly Flights Between Havana And SD In May
The Cuban Airport and Airport Services Company (ECASA) updated on its official channels the flight schedule of various airlines that connect Cuba from the Dominican Republic. As confirmed by ECASA, so far the Air Century airline will continue to operate with the following frequencies during the month of May from the José Martí...
Mexico City’s New Airport Set for Bumpy Takeoff
Three weeks before facing a midterm recall referendum, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will on Monday inaugurate his first major infrastructure pet project — a controversial new airport for Mexico City. Built at a military air base outside the capital, Felipe Angeles International Airport is meant to take the pressure...
Wamos Air recovers its flights to the Caribbean, with more frequencies to Punta Cana
Wamos Air looks optimistically to the future. After showing a commendable ability to adapt during the 24 months of the pandemic, the airline is setting an ambitious short-term renovation plan. In that sense, Enrique Saiz, general director of the airline, explained that “the company’s short-term plans in the Caribbean is to make...
No survivors found after China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade
No survivors of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash have been found after a second day of search efforts, Chinese investigators said late Tuesday. In China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade, the Boeing 737-800 — carrying 132 people — crashed Monday afternoon in a remote, mountainous region in the south of the …...
Frontier Airlines Announces New Flights Between Jamaica, Miami
Low-fare carrier Frontier Airlines announced it would launch nonstop service between Miami and Kingston, Jamaica, beginning May 5. The Frontier flights will operate three times per week year-round between Miami International Airport and Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, with introductory fares as low as $79 each way....
