Avianca announced that it will add two new destinations in Brazil, one in the United States and another to Honduras from El Dorado International Airport (BOG), which serves Bogota, starting in March 2023. The company had applied for the four routes in September 2022 before Aerocivil, Colombia’s aeronautical entity.
With this announcement, Avianca will reach four destinations in Brazil with five routes, eleven destinations in the United States with 32 routes, and two cities in Honduras with four routes.
Brazil
The Colombian company would land in Manaus (MAO), gateway to the Amazon, and Belo Horizonte (CNF), an important industrial and tourist center in the state of Minas Gerais.
Both cities were previously operated by the now-defunct Avianca Brasil.
Avianca will fly twice a week to Manaus and four times a week to Belo Horizonte, in both cases with Airbus A320 aircraft with capacity for 180 passengers.
Itinerary to Manaus
- Bogota – Manaus flight AV 81 BOG 22:30 – 2:25 (+1) BOG Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
- Manaus (MAO) – Bogota (BOG) flight AV 82 MAO 3:30 – 5:25 BOG Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
Itinerary to Belo Horizonte
- Bogota – Belo Horizonte flight AV 111 BOG 7:20 – 15:30 CNF Wednesday and Sunday
- Bogota – Belo Horizonte flight AV 117 BOG 22:30 – 6:40 (+1) CNF Monday and Friday
- Bogota – Belo Horizonte flight AV 123 BOG 14:00 – 22:10 CNF Thursdays
- Belo Horizonte – Bogota flight AV 112 CNF 17:25 – 21:10 BOG Wednesday and Sunday
- Belo Horizonte – Bogota flight AV 118 CNF 09:05 – 12:50 BOG Tuesday and Saturday
- Belo Horizonte – Bogota flight AV 122 CNF 1:25 – 5:10 BOG Fridays
Avianca currently operates three daily flights to São Paulo/Guarulhos and one daily flight to Rio de Janeiro/Galeao. In January 2023, it will inaugurate a connection between Cartagena (CTG) and São Paulo.
United States
Avianca resumes flights to Boston (BOS), Massachusetts, where it operated between June 2017 and May 2019. The company will return with five weekly flights on Airbus A320 aircraft, with capacity for 180 passengers, offering 1,800 seats per week.
Itinerary to Boston
- Bogota – Boston flight AV 222 BOG 7:20 – 14:45 BOS Mondays and Fridays
- Bogota – Boston flight AV 226 BOG 14:00 – 21:25 BOS Tuesdays and Saturdays
- Bogota – Boston flight AV 228 BOG 23:10 – 06:35 (+1) BOS Wednesdays
- Boston – Bogota flight AV 223 BOS 00:05 – 05:10 BOG Tuesday and Sunday
- Boston – Bogotá flight AV 227 BOS 16:05 – 21:10 BOG Monday and Friday
- Boston – Bogota flight AV 229 BOS 08:00 – 06:05 BOG Thursday
The United States is Avianca’s largest market, with up to 2,000 flights per month to eleven U.S. cities from its bases in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala. The company highlights that during 2022 it transported more than 2.6 million travelers to the North American country.
Honduras connected to South America
Avianca will operate between Bogota and Tegucigalpa/Palmerola, complementing its current offer from the Honduran capital to San Salvador (SAL) and Guatemala City (GUA) with 10 and 6 weekly flights respectively.
According to the company, it has transported 218,000 passengers in Honduras so far in 2022.
Itinerary to Tegucigalpa
- Bogota – Tegucigalpa (Palmerola) flight AV 100 BOG 14:00 – 16:00 XPL Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
- Bogota – Tegucigalpa (Palmerola) flight AV 254 BOG 22:05 – 0:05 (+1) XPL Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
- Tegucigalpa (Palmerola) – Bogota flight AV 101 XPL 17:20 – 21:10 BOG Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
- Tegucigalpa (Palmerola) – Bogota flight AV 255 XPL 1:10 – 4:55 BOG Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
The company will operate seven weekly flights between Tegucigalpa and Bogota in Airbus A320 aircraft with a capacity for 180 passengers, offering 2,520 seats per week.
Avianca in full growth
After exiting the reorganization process under Chapter 11, Avianca aims to continue adding point-to-point routes, mainly short and medium haul, where it can operate the Airbus A320CEO/NEO family.
In fact, from July 2021 to December 2022, Avianca will add one Airbus A319, 23 A320ceo and 10 A320neo, which will allow it to replace four Airbus A319s, all its ATR 72-600s and add new links at its various bases in Central America, Ecuador and Colombia. By 2023, the company plans to incorporate sixteen Airbus A320neo and eleven Airbus A320s.
In the meantime, it has transformed the interiors of its narrow-body aircraft, offering a wider range of seats, which in practice reduces the unit cost per passenger.
«In 2022 we inaugurated 21 new connections and by 2023 we will open 20 more. In this way we not only maintain, but continue to strengthen our network, the most complete in Colombia and one of the largest in Latin America, with a renewed, more flexible proposal for everyone,» said Manuel Ambriz, Avianca’s Chief Commercial Officer, during the presentation of the 4 new connections.
