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While Copa & Viva Airlines have not announced any fleet groundings so far, this week, Avianca & LATAM have announced significant cutbacks on routes, grounding between 30-40% of their fleets in the face of the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic.

Panamá based Copa Airlines announced today that all passengers must wear surgical masks during flights, check-in, boarding, and disembarkation on flights to and from Venezuela. The policy is to combat the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. This policy is in order to...

The Avianca board of directors has decided not to pay dividends to shareholders as they state there are no reserves or retained earnings available

Colombia’s immigration authorities in conjunction with the Ministry of Health have announced new measures, effective immediately, that apply to all travelers entering Colombian territory, whether Colombian or foreign.

Colombian Low Cost Carrier (LCC) Viva Air yesterday announced that beginning May 22, it will operate 4 weekly routes between Miami, Florida (MIA) and the coastal city of Cartagena, Bolivar (CTG) in Colombia. Tickets are already available for sale on the airline’s website.

Avianca  (NYSE: AVH, BVC: PFAVH)  has announced that it is changing out the seats in its Airbus A320 fleet with cheaper, thinner versions that will allow the airline to squeeze 24 more passengers on a flight, even though its passenger traffic is down almost 10% and on-time...

Viva Air parent Irelandia Aviation, has announced a “thank you gift” of 2% of shares to Viva Air employees as a reward for what it calls the significant milestones it has achieved in the airline’s 8-year history.

Colombian low-cost airline Viva Air this week announced that Rappi co-founder Juan Pablo Ortega Merino, co-founder of Rappi has been added to the company’s board of directors.

Anko Van Der Werff, Avianca’s new CEO installed in 2019 seems to be busy remaking the airline after cutting premium benefits and treatment that passengers had been accustomed to, apparently to compete with Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) operating in Colombia such as Viva Air, Wingo,...

Today, the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia served Avianca with a search warrant of its offices with the objective of collecting information related to allegations and cover-up of Avianca’s potentially improper bribery by senior executives and members of the board of...