This summer season is starting strongly for Avianca. The Colombian carrier is launching six new routes and restarting nine more during the first days of June. Some of these new routes include destinations in the United States, such as Boston and New York. Let’s take a look at Avianca’s new routes.

The new routes launched by Avianca

Employing its Airbus A320 fleet, Avianca is launching six new routes between June 1 and 15, the airline said in a statement. These new routes depart from Cali International Airport (CLO) in Colombia, San Salvador International (SAL) in El Salvador, and Quito International (UIO) in Ecuador and will add 44 new weekly flights for the company.

From Cali, Avianca launched a new seasonal flight to San Andrés International Airport (ADZ) today, which serves the Colombian leisure destination of San Andrés Island. Avianca will operate eight weekly flights on this route.

Avianca has launched two new routes from San Salvador on Thursday to Boston (BOS) and Cancun (CUN). These two routes will have six weekly flights. On June 11, Avianca will also begin flying to Orlando, with eight weekly flights. Finally, the Colombian carrier started flying to New York (JFK) from Quito yesterday, operating ten weekly flights. On June 15, it will begin flying to Cancun, operating six weekly flights.

Avianca’s restarted routes

The company is restarting nine routes this month, adding 70 weekly flights. Most of these routes depart from Colombia, with two from Pereira (PEI), two from Cali, and one from Bucaramanga (BGA), Cartagena (CTG), Santa Marta, and Medellín (MDE). The ninth route is being restarted from San José (SJO), Costa Rica.

On June 1, Avianca restarted five routes. Four of these routes have Miami International (MIA) as the final destination, departing from Bucaramanga (six weekly flights), Cali (14), Cartagena (ten), Pereira (eight), and one to New York from Pereira (eight).

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Today the airline restarted two additional routes, Medellín-Orlando with six weekly flights and Cali-New York with six weekly flights.

Finally, on June 3, Avianca will restart the flight Santa Marta-Miami with four weekly flights, and on June 13, it will resume the route San José-Washington with eight weekly flights.

David Alemán, Avianca's Sales Director for Colombia and South America, said,

“We continue to make progress in consolidating our Avianca for all with a route network that connects more and better to our customers in key markets such as El Salvador, Ecuador, Colombia, and the United States, growing our point-to-point network and preserving the connectivity offered by our hubs. This, while delivering on our promise of value so that our customers fly safe, on time, and arrive with their bags at their destination.”

Avianca’s business cabin returns

This week, the airline also announced the return of its business class seats on the route between Bogota and Los Angeles. Through leased Wamos Air’s Airbus A330-200, the airline has restarted the use of business cabins on this seven-hour route.

Manuel Ambriz, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), said,

“We know that going to Los Angeles is almost like going to Europe. It is a long trip, and we want our customers to have the opportunity to enjoy more benefits. We listened to them, made some internal adjustments, and today we are implementing the option of flying in the business cabin on a flight of seven hours.”

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