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Viva announced that it totally suspends, but temporary, all your national and international flights in Colombia and Peru.
VIVA Air is an airline of low cost based in Colombia that operates in several Latin American countries. It was founded in 2009 as VivaColombia and changed its name to VIVA to reflect its expansion into other markets in the region.
VIVA Air operates in various destinations within Colombia, as well as in other Latin American countries, including Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and USA. offers flights direct and connections through its main centers of operations in Bogota, Lima and Medellin, but your future is changing.
VIVA Air suspends flights
After a long period of growth and positioning as one of the fastest growing airlines in the region and the low-cost company in Colombia with more destinations, the pandemic, macroeconomic factors, exchange differences, high operating costs have put the airline in a very difficult economic situation and that today has worsened to its worst situation, never imagined after such a promising start.
Faced with this scenario, seven months ago, the series of communications of information and intentions to Avianca to take part in the low-cost airline with certain conditions.
In this process, which must have the approval of Aerocivil, there have been endless delays, the most recent requesting all interested parties additional to more than Avianca: Ultra Air, JetSmart, Argentinian airlines, LATAM and Wingo to inform about their offer to take over the troubled airline.
Today, Civil Aeronautics issued a Communication acknowledging the interests of various third parties regarding Viva's urgent request to allow its integration with a stronger and larger group of airlines.. This decision, unprecedented by the entity, will result in further delays in making a decision, so Viva is forced to announce, Regrettably, the suspension of its operations with immediate effect.
Before this panorama, the airline in official communication indicates the following:
Instead, Your decision today calls into question the future of the Low Cost air service in Colombia and jeopardizes the jobs of more than 5.000 Colombians, who directly and indirectly depend on Viva.
Right now, with the new delay in the authority's decision, the airline has been forced to make the decision to suspend its flights in its entirety.
Regrettably, we are at this point due to the repeated delays of the Civil Aeronautics and their inability to recognize that what is best for Viva, It is also the best for all Colombians.
The suspension of flights is immediate, also affecting its sister subsidiary Long live Peru. Which operates to Cusco and international routes to Colombia.
Affectation to passengers
Regarding the measures to be taken for affected passengers, the airline indicates the following:
For those passengers affected by our suspension of operations, we invite you to enter www.vivaair.com for more information; or if they wish, can await instructions from the Civil Aeronautics, who has publicly stated that he will put plans in place to help affected passengers.
At the moment, dozens of canceled flights have been presented throughout the airline's network of destinations, plus thousands of passengers affected in Colombia and countries where it operates.
airline future
The future of the airline is uncertain at this time in terms of a future date for restarting operations under a new process of change of ownership or capital injection.
Even, the doubt remains at this point that the airline as we know it today, even fly again.
¿Se verá afectada la mexicana Viva Aerobus?
It is important to indicate that the Mexican airline Viva Aerobus has no economic relationship with Viva Air, beyond trade agreements, Therefore, the operations and flights of said airline in Mexico will not be affected under any circumstances..
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