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The backpay and extended benefits apply retroactively to all Avianca pilots — not only the roughly 700 members of the ACDAC union.

Aerocivil began operating the Instrument Landing System (ILS) Category III at El Dorado International Airport in late November.

The Santiago-based airline expects to transport some 33,000 people on this route per year.

“The pilot strike will have an adverse effect on our fourth quarter results,” said Hernán Rincón, CEO of Avianca Holdings.

“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.