As we anticipated last week, Avianca confirmed this Monday the launch for sale of its new flights connecting Medellín with Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima.
This move not only aims at serving new passenger traffic flows but also at easing operations at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá.
Flights between Medellín and Lima will inaugurate on June 1st. On this route, Avianca will offer three weekly operations departing from the José María Córdova airport at 18:10 to arrive in the Peruvian capital at 21:10. The return will be at 1:55 on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, arriving in Medellín at 5:00. On this route, Avianca will compete with LATAM, which offers a daily flight, and JetSMART, with six weekly flights.
Avianca will start flying between Medellín and Santiago on June 2nd, departing on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 17:45 to arrive in the Chilean capital at 0:45. Conversely, flights will depart from Santiago on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 1:50, arriving at the José María Córdova airport at 6:59. Avianca will face JetSMART on this route, which offers four weekly flights.
Lastly, the route between Medellín and Buenos Aires will be inaugurated on June 15th. Avianca will operate a daily flight departing from the José María Córdova airport at 16:45 to arrive in the Argentine capital at 1:25. The return will be at 2:30, arriving in Medellín at 7:05. Viva was the last airline to fly between Medellín and Buenos Aires.
“After decades of operating in Medellín, we continue to bet on the connectivity of the region, this time with three new direct international routes that will further connect the people of Medellín with South America and at the same time allow more tourists to have new options to fly to Medellín and all of Antioquia,” said David Alemán, Avianca’s Sales Director for Colombia and South America.
“In this way, we continue to strengthen our network of routes in Latin America, offering our customers more direct connectivity, a flexible product, and competitive prices,” he added.
Buenos Aires, Lima, and Santiago will join the eleven international destinations that Avianca already operates from Medellín: Aruba, Cancún, New York, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Punta Cana, San José, San Juan, Quito, and Orlando.
This is complemented by domestic flights to San Andrés, Armenia, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Bogotá, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Montería</strong >, Pereira, Riohacha, and Santa Marta.
The average weekly seat offer of Avianca in Medellín during April is 172,514, according to information obtained by Aviacionline through Cirium, placing it as the main operator with 55.8% of the offer, followed by LATAM with 21.7% and Wingo with 8.9%. The rest are distributed among Copa, American, Spirit, JetSMART, Arajet, Air Europa, Aeroméxico, and JetBlue.
