Avianca suspends flights from Cartagena and Medellín to Guayaquil

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After a few months of starting, Avianca reported on the suspension of its flights from Cartagena and Medellin toward Guayaquil.

Was a 28 March when Avianca in a single day it inaugurated two new routes to the José Joaquín de Olmedo Airport in Guayaquil.

Operating both routes with three weekly frequencies on Tuesdays, thursday and saturday, the airline aimed at that time to position its presence in the market with new point-to-point flights without having to go through Bogota, but from August these flights will be temporarily suspended.

Avianca suspends flights to Guayaquil

These flights that were operated with airplanes Airbus A319 and A320 with a very good occupation, have been part of the scissors in the network of brand new routes of the airline, but as we said, not necessarily for lack of passengers.

concretely, The airline in an official statement told us the following:

«Avianca informed that as part of the permanent analysis of the behavior of the global route network and with the purpose of optimizing operations, the decision was made to indefinitely suspend operations on the Cartagena-Guayaquil and Medellín-Guayaquil routes as of 15 august 2023. The affected passengers have been contacted to find out the alternatives they have to make their flight via Quito or Bogotá and they can also check the status of their flight at avianca.com.

how can we see, flights are suspended indefinitely from the next 15 of August, but this suspension, as it was possible to know unofficially, is not due to low demand, but to a rescheduling of flights and fleet availability that has forced the airline to move the planes that operated those routes to other domestic ones in Colombia.

As we know, on Colombia recently closed two airlines, which has increased demand and competition has also shown growth in this competitive market, generating a reaction from Avianca towards taking care of its main country of operation.

in parallel, Avianca announced the incorporation of 10 Airbus A320neo additional, which will allow in the future to think about a restart of these routes that according to what could be seen, they had an interesting demand with positive numbers.

It should be noted, that the flights between Quito and Medellin They will remain without effects or cancellations as they are operated by Avianca Ecuador and not by the Colombian subsidiary..

Inclusive, I was on the inaugural flight from Medellín to Guayaquil that I share with you:

We look forward to the future restart of these flights.

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