Tickets have gone on sale for five new national routes: San Andrés-Pereira, San Andrés- Barranquilla, San Andrés-Bucaramanga, San Andrés-Cartagena and Cartagena-Bucaramanga.
Viva Air CEO Felix Antelo, a native of Argentina himself, has stated publicly that the airline expects to connect North & South America “from Buenos Aires to New York” through its Medellín hub.
The Cancún destination adds to Wingo’s route network to and from Cali, already connecting Panamá City, San Andrés, Cartagena, and Bogotá with 26 weekly flights from Colombia’s third largest city.
Colombian Airline GCA has filed for permission to fly new routes from Cartagena, Barranquilla, Pereira, and Cali to destinations in Bucaramanga, Pereira, and San Andrés. The routes are currently under review by Colombia's civil aviation authority.
Even with the COVID-19 pandemic, Viva Air transported over 100,000 passengers to and from San Andrés during the first two months of 2021, with a load factor (occupancy rate) of 94%.
While other Colombian airlines cling to life in bankruptcy courts, low cost carrier Viva Air remains in growth mode; this week announcing new routes between Cali, Colombia and the coastal cities of Santa Marta & Barranquilla. In just one year, the Rionegro (Medellín) based...