Aruba Airport and Avianca celebrate more flights and air service options

ORANJESTAD, Aruba – April 24, 2017: The airline, established 92 years ago, has for many consecutive years sustained a close, and uninterrupted relationship with Aruba. On Tuesday morning AAA and Avianca celebrated the increase in flight frequency from seven to 11 weekly flights between Bogota, Colombia and Aruba, which took off in April 2017. Aruba Airport Authority N.V. Air Service Development Manager, Jo-Anne Arends, and Johanna Hernandez, Avianca Commercial Executive, made the announcement.

The new flights are carried out on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, departing from Bogota at 7:57 p.m. and arriving on Aruba at 10:53 a.m. The return flight departs at 12:24 p.m. from Aruba, and lands in Bogota at 1:15 p.m. These flights will be carried out with among others Airbus 319, with more available seating for this destination, in total over 6,000 seats per month.

Avianca, with a fleet of 177 aircraft and 22,000 employees, serves 104 destinations in 28 countries. Their main hubs are Bogota, San Salvador and Lima. The airline's frequent flyer program “LifeMiles” has over 6 million members worldwide.

During the press conference the partners emphasized that Aruba is the only country in the world, aside from Colombia, where Avianca has a call center, in Papiamento, to assist passengers with tickets sales, reservations, itinerary changes, etc. The airline has two sales offices, in Eagle and at the Airport.

This acquisition will result in an increase in travel, not only to and from Bogota, but between Aruba and other domestic destinations within Colombia, including Cali, Medellin and Pereira. Other markets that benefit from this service include existing tourism markets for Aruba, such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile. This is an opportunity as well for the island to explore new tourism markets including Costa Rica and El Salvador in Central America, and Uruguay in South America.