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Cali will get direct flights to Santa Marta, Bucaramanga, and San Andrés, while Cartagena and Medellín also get new routes to San Andrés.

Bogotá-based airline Avianca completed the first flight on its new daily route between the Colombian capital and Montevideo today.

Avianca head Hernán Rincón says the airline "will continue negotiations with United" to reach an alliance that he believes is in the best interest of the company and shareholders.

"Travelers arriving to Mompox have the possibility to live a unique experience," said María Claudia Lacouture, Colombia's minister of commerce.

During peak summer season, from June 8 to August 14, United Airlines will make two flights per day between Newark and Bogotá.

Airline improvement in recent years means more Colombians "now consider air travel their first choice when traveling," said Wingo CEO Catalina Bretón.

The 2016 total was more than half a billion dollars above the $5.2 billion USD reported in 2015 and puts the industry second in terms of foreign revenue generation after the oil sector.

Business travelers worry about "being a target of insecurity in some countries,” says Octavio Bonilla of Nissan Mexico.

Aerocivil says it received an average of 18 complaints per day during the Semana Santa period, less than half of the 45-per-day average in 2016.

Finance Colombia Executive Editor Loren Moss recently made the trip to Manizales to discuss the progression of Colombia's wine scene with Bernal and also to understand why someone in the wine industry would abandon an international capital like Bogotá for a small, mountainous...