Tag: airline
Portugal’s state airline launches new direct route between Bogota, Lisbon
Colombia will have four new services a week flying to Europe, after Portugal’s state airline...
Iberia airlines to expand weekly flights between Spain, Colombia
Spain’s Iberia airline announced that the company will be expanding its weekly flights...
Pilots of Colombia’s largest airline start ‘operation no overtime’ after pay dispute
Pilots of Colombia’s largest airline Avianca will refuse to work overtime from Friday, causing...
Colombia’s Avianca to expand network
The Colombian airline Avianca will increase its workload as it implements more flight plans to destinations in the Americas, reported local media on Wednesday. The airline will add 1,880 seats a week to flights to eight...
AviancaTaca’s passenger numbers increase by a fifth
Latin American airline Avianca-Taca and its subsidiaries carried 20.7 million passengers in 2011, representing a rise of 17.8%, or 3.1 million passengers, on the previous year. In December 2011 the airline carried 1.9 million...
AviancaTaca announces direct Bogota-Rio flight
International airline AviancaTaca announced Tuesday that it will begin operating direct flights from Bogota, Colombia, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, three times weekly, local media reported. The new flight route, which will...
Avianca TACA to offer $283M in preferential shares
Avianca Taca has announced plans to offer one billion preferential shares worth a total of $283.6 million, equivalent to 11% of the Colombian business consortium’s value, Spanish news agency EFE reported Monday. The shares...
Airline leaves two children in waiting room for 6 hours
Colombian airline Aires forgot to board two young children in their care onto a flight from Bogota to Medellin, reported El Espectador. The mother of the children, Lizette Arango said she paid $64 extra for her children to be...
Airline Easyfly in profit after just 3 years
Colombian airline Easyfly is in the black, posting profits of $388,000 in 2010 after just three years of operation, magazine Dinero reported Wednesday. President of the Colombian airline Alfonso Avila presented the results on...
Avianca gets green light to sell shares
The registration and public sale of Avianca shares was authorized by the Financial Supervisory Authority, El Espectador reported Friday. One hundred million preferential, no-voting-rights shares are to be issued and the income...
TAM opens Sao Paulo-Bogota direct flights
Brazilian airline TAM announces that flights on its new route between Bogota and Sao Paulo will start December 19, Dinero reports. During the ABAV Fair of the Americas, an international tourism trade fair held in Sao Paulo in...
Airlines adjust flights to accommodate to rain
Colombian airlines have had to adjust their flight schedules to due to heavy rain and fog, news source CMI reports. Bogota airport El Dorado has experienced a series of delays as a result of heavy rains across Colombia, causing...
