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After a hiatus of almost 7months without commercial flights between Medellín, Colombia and Lima, Peru, low-cost carrier Viva Air is restarting nonstop flights between the two Andean cities.

Passengers who credited miles to Lifemiles in the past also will find it nearly impossible to qualify for elite status while primarily flying Star Alliance partner airlines, as another new requirement is that to qualify for Lifemiles elite status, 80% of the qualifying miles must...

Espinosa, who won the Latin America's Best Female Chef Award in 2017, is renowned for her pioneering work to revive Colombian culinary traditions and for using food to promote cultural and social development in indigenous, afro-descendant, and rural communities.

Medellín based international low-cost air carrier Viva Air has added Cali, Colombia as a base of operations (in effect, a mini-hub), stationing two Airbus A320 Aircraft at Cali’s international airport, and adding new routes between Cali and both Barranquilla & Santa Marta, on...

In late November, an attorney, Alberto González Mebarack, launched a lawsuit in Bogotá to demand that the Colombian Ministry of Health reimpose the requirement for a negative PCR test on any traveler entering Colombia. After

The m-type Colombian freelance visa is granted to expats who want to practice their profession independently within national territory. It was created to give foreign nationals the legal right to work remotely whilst living in Colombia for Colombian businesses and organizations....

Viva Air has appointed Juan Diego Zapata as the new Director of Sales and Distribution to work closely with travel agencies and other travel and tourism industry actors to consolidate Viva’s position in both the tourist and corporate segments.

In September 2020, Avianca and its subsidiaries transported a total of 164,859 air passengers including 5,342 passengers on repatriation flights, resulting in a monthly load factor of 66.7%.

Avianca Airlines announced this week that as part of its new management structure, current CFO Adrian Neuhauser will assume additional responsibilities relating to the airline’s operation and the company’s legal affairs as Corporate Executive Vice President, reporting to the CEO,...

The book starts off with a glowing account of the airline’s creation, almost superlative in its description of the personalities involved. However, in the second half the book takes a frank and candid tone when approaching the airline’s growing pains, internal conflict among the...