Avianca suspends flights from Cartagena and Medellín to Guayaquil

After a few months of starting, Avianca informó on suspensionón of your flights from Cartagena and Medellín toward Guayaquil.

Was a 28 March when Avianca in a soloíinaugurated two new routes to José Airporté Joaquín of Olmedo in Guayaquil.

Operating both routes with three weekly frequencies the díthe mars, thursday and sábadass, the airípoint snowó at that time to position its presence in the market with new point-to-point flights without having to go through Bogotaá, but since August these flights will beán temporarily suspended.

Avianca suspends flights to Guayaquil

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

concretely, the airíNea in an official statement told usó the next:

«Avianca informó that as part of theápermanent analysis on the behavior of the global route network and with the purposeósite to optimize operations, with tható I decided itón to indefinitely suspend operations on the Cartagena-Guayaquil and Medell routesín-Guayaquil from 15 august 2023. The affected passengers have been contacted to find out the alternatives they have to make their flight víto Quito or Bogotá and alsoéYou can check the status of your flight at avianca.com»

how can we see, flights are suspended indefinitely from the próximo 15 of August, but this suspensionón themselvesúIt was not possible to know unofficially, it is not due to low demand, but to a reschedulingónumber of flights and fleet availability that has forced the airlineíto move the planes that operated those routes to other countrieséstatic in Colombia.

As we know, on Colombia recently closed two airlinesídenies, which has increased demand and competition as wellén has shown growth in this competitive market, generating a reactionón of Avianca towards taking care of its main paíwith de operationón.

in parallel, Avianca announcementó incorporate itón of 10 Airbus A320neo additional, what to allowá In the future, think about restarting these routes thatúcould not be seen, tenían interesting demand with númere positives.

It should be noted, that the flights between Quito and Medellín to maintainán without effects or cancellations as these 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.