Arajet, based in the Dominican Republic, presented its winter season schedule, enabling sales for all of 2023 and part of 2024.
Another noteworthy novelty is that they also enabled the purchase of complete sections between two cities connecting through Santo Domingo’s Las Americas International Airport (SDQ), an essential boost in the positioning of this airport as a new hub in the Caribbean.
Arajet currently flies to 17 destinations in 11 countries in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America.
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More than 2.7 million seats available by 2023
According to the Cirium platform, Arajet plans to close 2023 with an offer of 2,781,027 seats. Its fleet consists of five Boeing 737 MAX 8s, which seat 185 passengers, but it has an order for 35 Boeing 737 MAX 8-200s, the high-density version of the MAX that can accommodate up to 210 passengers.
In addition to the seats added by the end of 2023, they opened the marketing of another 911,926 seats for the first quarter of 2024 in the middle of the winter season.
It currently operates to:
- Aruba (AUA); twice weekly flights.
- Barranquilla (BAQ), Colombia; two weekly flights.
- Bogota (BOG), Colombia; three weekly flights.
- Cali (CLO), Colombia; two flights weekly.
- Cartagena (CTG), Colombia; three weekly flights.
- Medellín/Rionegro (MDE), Colombia; three weekly flights.
- San José (SJO), Costa Rica; four weekly flights.
- Curaçao (CUR); two weekly flights.
- Guayaquil (GYE), Ecuador; two flights weekly.
- Quito (UIO), Ecuador; two weekly flights.
- San Salvador (SAL), El Salvador; six weekly flights.
- Guatemala City (GUA), Guatemala; four weekly flights.
- Kingston (KIN), Jamaica; four flights weekly.
- Cancun (CUN), Mexico; three flights weekly.
- Mexico City/Santa Lucia (NLU), Mexico; five flights weekly.
- Lima (LIM), Peru; two flights weekly.
- St. Marteen (SXM); two weekly flights.
In recent weeks they have increased their operations to Mexico City and San Salvador. In addition, they unified the destinations of Aruba and Curaçao in a single route, as well as Quito and Guayaquil, with a 45-minute stopover between cities.
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Arajet’s Santo Domingo/Las Americas Hub
The company’s intention is to establish a continental hub in Santo Domingo to serve as a counterweight to Copa Airlines’ hub in Panama. Therefore, since the beginning of April, the ultra low cost airline enabled the possibility of connecting to other destinations in the network through Las Americas International Airport (SDQ).
According to the airline’s reservation system, travelers will be able to purchase the following final destinations:
- Aruba, Cartagena, Curacao, Kingston and St. Marteen to Cancun, Guatemala, Mexico City and San Salvador.
- Medellin to Mexico City.
- Cancun, Guatemala and San Salvador to Aruba, Cartagena, Curacao, Kingston and St. Maarten.
- Mexico City to Aruba, Cartagena, Curacao, Kingston, Medellin and St. Marteen.
It is expected that by mid-year connections from Ecuador, Peru and the rest of the destinations in Colombia to the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America will be enabled.
