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Avianca began planning the potential restart of its direct flights between Bogota and Havana after requesting this route before the Aerocivil.
They spent more than 4 years since Avianca stopped flying Cuba so that this airline once again has plans to return to the always interesting Cuban air market.
Was the 15 of January of 2020 when the airline suspended the route to Cuba and at that time it indicated the following as reasons for canceling the route:
“As we announced in October, Avianca suspended the sale of tickets to and from Cuba since the past 31 October. In line with the above, The company announces that it will additionally cancel the air operations of the San Salvador-Havana and Bogotá-Havana flights from 15 January 2020”
Avianca requests flights to Havana
Was the 17 last January when the airline's formal request to return to Havana, route that after being suspended in 2020 has maintained constant concern among the Cuban diaspora about its potential restart, that at the moment for our region the options are somewhat limited to fly to the Havana What are the cases like? Tocumen in Panama or with Wingo from Bogota and Balboa.
concretely, the request for Avianca is the following before the Colombian civil aviation authority:
- Bogota Route – Havana and return with up to seven (07) weekly frequencies with fifth freedom rights of the air.
this route, to materialize, would be operated on Airbus A319 aircraft, A320 o A320neo with capacity up to 180 passengers in a single class.
At the time of this publication, a potential date for the start of marketing and subsequent start of direct flights between Bogota and Havana, so I will update any new information that becomes available..
Another domestic route
further, and in the same order, Avianca also requested to fly from Medellín to Pasto with up to seven weekly frequencies, what would be the second domestic route that the airline serves from/to Pasto.
We will keep reporting.
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