Latin American route updates

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During February many new developments took place in the Latin American market, especially with new routes for the upcoming season, as well as the start-up of new subsidiaries.

Bogotá City and El Dorado Airport

A major announcement is the start of JetSMART Colombia since March 14th, which will operate seven domestic routes with 3 Airbus A320neo.

These are other highlights:

  • Aerolíneas Argentinas to increase flights between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
  • Air Europa inaugurates a new route to the Dominican Republic.
  • Aeromexico returns to South Korea after a two-year hiatus.
  • avianca expands flight frequency on international routes.
  • Copa Airlines announces three new destinations from the “Hub of the Americas”.
  • Emirates starts service to Colombia?
  • Emtrasur and its Boeing 747 retained in Argentina.
  • LATAM and SKY will be adding connections between Chile and Brazil.
  • VivaAerobus adds new routes from Felipe Angeles Airport in Mexico City.

In addition, on February 10th, a very extensive chapter of Emtrasur Cargo’s Boeing 747-3B3(M), an aircraft that had been held at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza airport since June 2022, ended.

The 747 was detained at the Argentine airport after arriving from Caracas a year and a half ago.

Aerolíneas Argentinas

Due to the start of the European summer, Aerolíneas Argentinas will increase its flights between Buenos Aires and Madrid starting in July.

For the first time in almost five years, the company will operate two times a day on this route, which is carried out with 265-seat Airbus A330-200 aircraft.

Daily

Daily

Madrid and Rome are Aerolíneas Argentinas’ destinations in Europe. As for the Italian capital, where it also operates using Airbus A330s, it offers five weekly services to/from Buenos Aires.

Air Europa

As of June 27th, the Spanish airline will start its flights between Madrid and Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Air Europa will operate this route until early September, as these will be seasonal services.  

Thursday and Saturday

Santiago de los Caballeros will be Air Europa’s third destination in the Dominican Republic:

Map by gcmap.com

Aeromexico

Beginning August 1st, Aeromexico will resume services to South Korea after a two-year suspension. According to the press release, the carrier will offer daily flight on 274-seat Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jets.

Daily

Aeromexico will be the only company to operate between Latin America and South Korea.

Arajet

The Dominican airline added a new Boeing 737 MAX 8 during January, bringing its fleet to nine aircraft.

This Boeing 737 MAX, registration HI1103, entered service on February 7th with flight DM 3590 to Quito and Guayaquil.

Arajet’s fleet

  • HI1026 · 2 years
  • HI1027 · 2 years
  • HI1078 · 4 years
  • HI1081 · 5 years
  • HI1082 · 5 years
  • HI1098 · 6 months
  • HI1099 · 5 months
  • HI1103 · 7 years
  • HI1104 · 5 years

avianca

The company will expand frequencies on several of its international routes from Colombia between late March and early April. In line with its website, these are the increases:

Bogotá

Medellín

  • Miami (MIA): from 11 to 15 weekly

Azul Linhas Aéreas

Effective February 19th, Azul Linhas Aéreas will inaugurate flights between Brasilia and Belem. In accordance with the press release, the airline will operate once a day with Embraer E-2 aircraft configured for 136 passengers.

Daily

Copa Airlines

The carrier announced a major international expansion beginning in June, with the addition of three destinations.

Florianópolis, Raleigh-Durham and Tulum will be Copa’s new routes, which will commence between June 21st and 26th.

Raleigh/Durham · June 21st

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

Florianópolis · June 25th

Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday

Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Tulum · June 26th

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

Emirates

The company will boost its services to Argentina and Brazil on December 8th. In South America, Emirates operates to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, with a total of 11 weekly flights.

In this case, these will be the increases:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

The airline will add a new service on Saturdays.

In addition, it was recently reported that Emirates has requested authorization to operate the Dubai – Miami – Bogota (Colombia) route with Boeing 777 aircraft.

There is no major information regarding this matter, but in case it finally becomes a reality, it would be Emirates’ fifth destination in Latin America.

Emtrasur Cargo

On Monday, February 12th at 01:30 local time, Emtrasur Cargo’s Boeing 747-3B3(M), registration YV3531, departed Buenos Aires for the United States.

The aircraft had arrived in Argentina from Caracas, Venezuela, on June 6th, 2022. Two days later, as it was unable to refuel at Ministro Pistarini airport, it departed to Uruguay in order to refuel in Montevideo, but Uruguay denied it entry to the airspace, returning to Buenos Aires.

Shortly thereafter, the Boeing 747 was detained in the Argentine capital and the crew, including Iranians and Venezuelans, were arrested.

The crew was soon released, but the plane was held for more than a year and a half.

Emtrasur’s Boeing 747 arrived at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, in Florida, and is now being held there.

In our database, the aircraft does not have coverage the whole time, as it is via MLAT. For more information on the Buenos Aires – Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport flight, you can visit this link, although available in fragments.

Estelar

The Venezuelan airline, which operates with Iberojet’s Airbus A350s, will duplicate its services between Madrid and Caracas as of May 1st. Estelar currently offers one flight per week on this route.

Wednesday and Friday

New flight on Wednesdays.

Three other companies operate between the two capitals.

Air Europa

Daily except Monday and Wednesday

Iberia

Daily except Thursday and Saturday

Plus Ultra

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday

Caracas when it had flights of Air France and Alitalia (September 2013).

JetSMART

The low cost carrier announced that it will begin domestic operations in the Colombian market effective March 14th. JetSMART will fly with Airbus A320neo aircraft, and the first one is already performing certification flights in Colombia (CC-AWX).

These will be the routes:

Map by gcmap.com
JetSMART Colombia’s first Airbus A320.

Colombia will become JetSMART’s fourth market with domestic flights, after Chile, its main base, Argentina and Peru.

JetSMART currently offers international service to Colombia:

LATAM

Starting June 1st, LATAM Airlines will inaugurate flights between the capitals of Chile and Brazil, its two main markets in South America.

The airline will operate with Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft with 174 and 220 seats respectively.

At the moment, the flights are not on sale, but it is confirmed that they will fly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

LATAM routes between Chile and Brazil

Map by gcmap.com

From Brasilia, with respect to international connections, LATAM has a daily flight to Lima on Airbus A320-200s.

Mexicana de Aviación

The new Mexicana de Aviación, which entered service at late December, recently added a third Boeing 737-800, registered XA-AWM.

With this addition, Mexicana, under military command, reaches 5 aircraft between Boeing 737s and Embraer 145s:

AircraftRegistrationConfigAge
Boeing 737-8MCXA-ASM180 seats8.4 years
Boeing 737-8ZYXA-ATM180 seats7.4 years
Boeing 737-8ZYXA-AWM180 seats7.2 years
Embraer ERJ-145(LR)XA-AFH50 seats25.5 years
Embraer ERJ-145(EP)XA-VGQ50 seats22.9 years

Its hub is the Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) in the Mexican capital.

SKY Airline

In addition to LATAM, SKY also continues expanding routes in the Chile-Brazil market.

Beginning in June, the low cost carrier will launch two new connections, both to and from Santiago de Chile airport.

Belo Horizonte · June 1st

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

Brasilia · June 2nd

Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

United Airlines

Starting December 19th, United will inaugurate flights to Tulum, Mexico, from Denver. The company will operate once daily on Boeing 737-900(ER) aircraft seating 179 passengers.

Daily

Chicago, Houston and Newark will be United Airlines’ regular routes to Tulum, as well as seasonal service to Los Angeles.

VivaAerobus

The Mexican company inaugurated five new routes to/from Felipe Angeles International Airport in Mexico City during January.

Chihuahua, Huatulco, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Tampico were added to the 14 destinations already offered by Viva Aerobus at the airport:

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