Wingo celebrates its fifth anniversary of flights

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The low cost airline Wingo celebrates its fifth anniversary of domestic and international flight operations from Colombia. Press photo Wingo

In this month of December Wingo celebrates its first five-year period amid the strengthening of the fleet, which allows to increase the offer in some of the destinations and to continue with the projections of growth throughout Latin America and the Caribe.

Wingo milestones in these 5 years

"In these first 5 years we can affirm that we will continue to be enablers of inclusive tourism by being the low cost airline that connects the most to Colombia with Latin America, contributing to the tourism and economic development of the country and the region. We will continue to institutionalize that the low cost model does not go against quality, nor punctuality", assured Jorge Jimenez, Sales manager, Wingo Marketing and Distribution.

A profitable airline before the pandemic

Wingo managed in its first years of operation prior to the pandemic to achieve profitability in an industry in which one of the main challenges is economic sustainability. Thanks to the focus on low costs, to the strategic planning of routes and the good vibes that the airline offers to all travelers, Wingo achieved profitability with sound and solid financials, soon. A) Yes, the airline was able to face the pandemic in a favorable financial position.

The largest low-cost in Colombia in the international market

Currently, Wingo is the low-cost airline with the largest number of international destinations operated from Colombia (28 routes to 11 countries of the region) and continues to explore in which other markets they could continue to grow. is the only one Low Cost in the country to operate to Aruba, Curacao, Quito, Guayaquil, Panama, Saint Joseph, Havana and Santo Domingo, demonstrating that where there are previous barriers built by the high price of tickets, Wingo is able to shoot them down.

We doubled our capacity in the 3 early years

Wingo was born with 4 aircraft type B737-700 NG with capacity for 142 Travellers, each. Later, after seeing the reception and growth potential of the airline, an air fleet transition process began. In this way, the first ones were replaced 4 airplanes by models 737-800 child 186 chairs each, thus increasing the capacity by about a 31% in all markets operated.

Wingo recently welcomed the seventh aircraft and the eighth aircraft is expected to join soon, with which Low Cost will continue to strengthen capacity in markets where it obtains good results and exploring new routes to institutionalize the #ModoWingo.

Adaptability and solutions designed for the traveler

Almost two of Wingo's five years have been framed in a challenging scenario due to the pandemic, nevertheless, this reality allowed the airline to accelerate its innovation processes to design agile solutions designed for passengers, with self-management functionalities from the website and prioritizing flexibility as a pillar, because it was the first low cost to include a date change without paying a penalty until 15 days before the flight. What's more, traveling with dog and cat children has never been as easy as in Wingo, since furry ones are excellent travel companions and always fly in the cabin.

WinGO healthy revival

The reactivation of Wingo has occurred with high biosafety standards and with a view to serving neglected markets, since the airline has launched 8 new routes, both domestic and international and thanks to the positive response of travelers, are currently operated 27% more flights than before the pandemic, offering in turn 1.3 million more chairs on the market, all with a load factor that exceeds the 85%.

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