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“We urge the pilots of ACDAC to return to work and comply with the legal decisions immediately," said Avianca head Hernán Rincón.

With an already-massive port business and a spike in international tourism, Cartagena’s Rafael Núñez International Airport is nearing capacity. To solve the problem, Conecta Caribe, along with a team of partners, has devised a proposal to construct a bigger and better...

The pilots union said that "the Colombian state is on the side of the company that violates labor rights and not the rights of workers.”

Overall, the bank estimates this shortfall equates to an overall net income loss of $1.5 million USD per day.

Ticket sales have been reactivated but technical challenges have made searching for a flight complicated in the first day of encouragement that the strike could end soon.

Avianca hopes to stave off a strike in a morning meeting tomorrow with representatives of the pilots union ACDAC.

If enacted, a strike by ACDAC would ground some 700 pilots working for Avianca, the largest airline in Colombia.

The new agreement will go into effect on tickets sold this month and for travel dates beginning in September.

Avianca's top executive called it a “difficult decision” to suspend flights for first time in 60 years while citing safety concerns and operational difficulties.

"Inaction is not an option," said John Kelly, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in a warning to international airports.