The Colombian ultra-low-cost carrier Viva has announced an increase in the weekly connectivity in routes to Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Some of these routes were inaugurated less than a month ago, and the airline is investing its confidence in them. Let’s investigate further.

Viva’s new routes

After a month of operations of Viva’s newest routes to Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport (EZE) and São Paulo Guarulhos International Airport (GRU), the company has announced an increase in the number of weekly flights in October.

Viva will operate five weekly flights to Buenos Aires from Medellín and Bogotá and will operate four weekly services to São Paulo from Medellín.

Pablo Madriñán, Commercial Vice president at Viva, said,

“It has been less than a month since we launched our direct connectivity from Colombia to Argentina and Brazil with a super low-cost, and we have already seen a great acceptance of these routes by our travelers. Therefore, we are increasing the number of weekly frequencies by October to these destinations, allowing more passengers to travel, paying only for what they need.”

Currently, Viva operates four flights to Buenos Aires from Bogotá and Medellín, respectively, and three to São Paulo.

A Viva Colombia aircraft.
Viva will increase its weekly connectivity in routes to Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Photo: Guillermo Quiroz Martínez via @gquimar.

Adding services to Mexico

But that’s not all. The Colombian ultra-low-cost carrier will also add new services to Cancun International Airport (CUN) from Medellín. By September, the airline will operate ten weekly flights, becoming Viva’s most important international route.

Pablo Madriñán added,

“Moreover, following our strategy to connect the country (Colombia) with Mexico, we will have up to ten weekly flights to Cancún from our Medellín Hub by September. We are committed to following our expansion strategy to add new destinations to our Viva map route.”

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Viva’s current international connectivity

Viva Colombia has heavily increased its international connectivity during the pandemic. Before 2020 the airline had only a few international flights to destinations such as Lima (Peru) and Miami (United States).

Over the last two and a half years, Viva has added new destinations, anchoring its growth in the Medellín Hub strategy, which aims to turn Medellín International Airport (MDE) into a connectivity hub, similar to the one Copa Airlines operates in Panama’s Tocumen International Airport (PTY). The main difference is Viva is a low-cost operator.

As of July 2022, Viva Colombia operates 57 weekly international flights on 13 routes flying to destinations in the United States, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil, and Argentina. These are the routes currently operated by Viva:

  1. Bogota-Buenos Aires, four weekly flights
  2. Bogota-Lima, one weekly flight
  3. Bogota-Mexico City, one daily flight
  4. Cali-Cancun, three weekly flights
  5. Cartagena-Mexico City, two weekly flights
  6. Medellin-Cancun, eight weekly flights
  7. Medellin-Buenos Aires, four weekly flights
  8. Medellin-Sao Paulo, three weekly flights
  9. Medellín-Lima, four weekly flights
  10. Medellín-Orlando, two weekly flights
  11. Medellín-Mexico City, one daily flight
  12. Medellín-Miami, one daily flight
  13. Medellín-Punta Cana, five weekly flights.

Overall, Mexico has become Viva’s main international destination. The airline operates 27 weekly flights to this country from four different cities.

Viva has a fleet composed of 21 aircraft in Colombia and two in Peru. It has 11 Airbus A320s and 12 Airbus A320neos.

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