Latin American airline Avianca is on a development tear to the U.S. this yr, making good on its year-end promise so as to add not less than 5 new routes to Florida.
The Star Alliance service will join Guatemala Metropolis’s La Aurora Worldwide Airport (GUA) and Miami Worldwide Airport (MIA) day by day beginning Could 10. Avianca will fly an Airbus A320 with as much as 180 seats on the route.
Schedules from aviation analytics agency Cirium present that the route is Avianca’s fifth to the U.S. from Guatemala Metropolis and its sixth systemwide to date in 2025. Different new hyperlinks embrace Bogota’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG) to Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport (DFW) and Tampa Worldwide Airport (TPA) and Medellin’s Jose Maria Cordova Worldwide Airport (MDE) to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport (FLL).
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The airline that restructured below Chapter 11 chapter through the pandemic is rising to the U.S. at a formidable clip. Within the first half of the yr, seats are scheduled to extend 9% year-over-year, Cirium information reveals. That follows a 25% leap in seats in 2024.
Whereas Avianca has grown throughout the U.S., Florida figures extremely in its U.S. growth. Seats to the Sunshine State are scheduled to extend 19% year-over-year within the first half of 2025, or a couple of quarter in comparison with 2019.
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“Florida has traditionally been a key gateway for connections to Latin America, which is why it’s important for us to contribute to reuniting households, boosting tourism and selling enterprise,” Avianca CEO Frederico Pedreira mentioned in December.
The airline’s fast Florida growth has it on observe for a probably new crown: the biggest international airline within the state. Avianca is already on its method to regaining its title because the second largest from LATAM Airways within the second quarter — it slipped as little as fifth in 2022 throughout its restructuring — and stays second solely to Air Canada. And whereas the Canadian airline maintains a large lead, it faces mounting head winds to U.S. journey demand and has mentioned it can cut back schedules “on the margins.”
Avianca has additionally indicated that it plans so as to add new service to Fort Lauderdale from Augusto Cesar Sandino Worldwide Airport (MGA) in Managua, Nicaragua, this yr. It has not introduced a date for the brand new flights.
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On the Guatemala Metropolis-MIami route, Avianca will face off towards American Airways and Frontier Airways, Cirium schedules present.
Under are particulars of Avianca’s new Guatemala Metropolis-to-Miami nonstop:
- MIA-GUA: Departs 1:45 p.m. and arrives 2:25 p.m., all instances native
- GUA-MIA: Departs 3:25 p.m. and arrives 8:10 p.m., all instances native
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