Avianca’s flight guide in Colombia for 2022

Finally, Avianca Holdings has resolved its restructuring process by exiting Chapter 11 and began a slow recovery of its flight offer, despite a reduction of part of its fleet and the discontinuation of its subsidiary in Peru.

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Avianca Holdings, including its subsidiaries in Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador, plans to open 50 routes by 2023 to ensure the company’s profitability. Avianca’s plans to gradually reduce ticket prices by densifying the narrow-body fleet and simplifying its models to just two types of aircraft: the Airbus A320 Family and Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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As already mentioned, the business class will be eliminated on the Airbus A319, A320 and A321 in favor of three classes: Economy, Plus, and Premium, which will help increase the seat offering by 20%.

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As for Colombia, Avianca has a fleet of 96 aircraft, and in order to sustain its plan, it seeks to reach 120 aircraft by 2022. During its restructuring, the airline decided to eliminate the Airbus A330-300, ATR 72-600, Airbus A321neo, and several Airbus A330-200s from its fleet.

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Based on data obtained by Aviacionline through Cirium, 80.2% of the seats are offered by the Airbus A320 Family, the rest of the quota corresponds to the Boeing 787 and A330. Many destinations have regained their pre-pandemic frequencies, although using smaller aircraft, resulting in a lower supply.

Avianca has carried 6.8 million passengers during 2021 in Colombia, which is 36% less than the pre-pandemic figure, according to Aerocivil.

Generally speaking, the number of flights offered between January and March is 30.7% below the same period in 2019. Out of the network it operated prior to the pandemic, the company’s flights from Bogotá (BOG) to Havana (HAV), Cuba; Cusco (CUS), Peru, and Munich (MUC) in Germany; from Cali (CLO) to Guayaquil (GYE), Ecuador, and between Cartagena (CTG) and Miami (MIA) are no longer included in the list. The company has not yet announced a return date for these routes at the time of this report.

Avianca’s International Frequencies and Destinations between January and March 2022

Avianca’s Domestic Frequencies and Destinations between January and March 2022