Viva Air studies flying to Guayaquil from Santa Marta and Cartagena

the airínea low cost Viva Air study flying to Guayaquil from Santa Marta and Cartagena, both in Colombia.

Before the aero authorityáutica of Colombia, Aerocivil, Viva Air Colombia during the month of December presentó the application to add to your operating permitón new destinations and routesún is detailed:

the airíI do not requestó the following routes:

• Averageín – Delún y vv. with up 3 weekly frequencies.
• Cartagena – Guayaquil and vv. with up 3 weekly frequencies.
• Santa Marta – Guayaquil and vv. with up 3 weekly frequencies.
• Averageín – México and vv. with up 3 weekly frequencies.
• Cartagena – México and vv. with up 7 weekly frequencies.
• Averageín – Cusco y vv. with up 7 weekly frequencies.
• Bogotaá – Cusco y vv. with up 7 weekly frequencies.
• Cartagena – Lima y vv. with up 7 weekly frequencies.

For our Ecuadorian market, the interest is important.és that Guayaquil isá rising from the 2018 in the airídenies, thanks to interesting incentives and a recovering marketón.

These two requested routes to Ecuador clearly have a tourist attraction.ístic and despite the fact that Cartagena and Santa Marta geographicaláThey are actually quite close, it will be possibleíto anticipate that the aerosolínea to performíand one operationón «jumping» adíto between one city and another and even operate úonly during holiday or high season in both countriesíses.

From both destinations the airlineínea requests operates with 3 weekly flights to be operated on Airbus A320-214 aircraft.

Santa Marta, recently becameó at Aerol's third hubínea in Colombia from where some international routes such as Miami and Guayaquil have started, it will be possibleía sumar próximly.

It should be noted that the request for this route does not imply an eminent start of operations, since this is a strategyún of the aerosolsíareas to request in advanceón certain routes to one way or another «block» the entry of competition or new potential competitors on the route that are in análysis.

We will continue to informóximately any new movement or advance of this order, that at least for now, has not started his workábelongs to the competent entity on the Ecuadorian side andún is pending restart of operations to beíto Guayaquil from Bogotá.