Colombian airline Avianca will resume flights to Cuba in July

In the midst of a panorama in which Latin American airlines such as the Argentine airlines abandoned the Cuban market, the Colombian Avianca announced that it will soon resume its flights to Cuba, after four years without operating that route that links Havana with Bogotá.

He was the Cuban Minister of Tourism, Juan Carlos García Granda, who confirmed the news through a video shared by the X account of the Civil Aeronautics of Colombia.

“We are building relationships with all nations to take the aviation experience to another level,” the aforementioned source said in the publication.

For his part, the Cuban minister assured that Avianca's arrival on Cuban soil is scheduled for next July with four weekly flights.

According to It is reported, The arrival of the Colombian airline to Cuba represents competition for others that offer the route to South America, such as Copa Airlines and Latam, although in the case of Avianca with the possibility of connecting Brazilian tourism with the Island.

“A Brazilian airline that will soon travel to Bogotá will make it easier for Brazilians to reach Cuba thanks to those frequencies,” he said. Ivis Fernández, representative advisor of the Cuban Ministry of Tourism in Peru, Colombia and Brazil, about the connections of having Gol fly to Colombia.

The Brazilian airline Gol, Avianca's partner in the Abra Group, recently arrived in Colombia to establish its new international base. The airline will begin with two routes from Bogotá to Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires.

Avianca inaugurated its flights to Cuba in 2012, with two weekly frequencies. Eight years later, On January 15, 2020, it announced its suspension due to possible United States sanctions for its operations in Cuba.

"As we announced in the month of October, Avianca suspended the sale of tickets to and from Cuba since last October 31. In line with the above, the company announces that it will additionally cancel the air operations of the San Salvador-Havana flights. and Bogotá – Havana since January 15, 2020," they explained in a statement.

The return of Avianca occurs in a context in which several airlines have suspended their arrivals to Cuban territory, such as Aerolíneas Argentinas, which on March 8 made its last flight to Havana.

Recently, the airline TUI, leader in holiday travel in Europe, announced the definitive suspension of its flights to the Cuban resort of Varadero from Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.

The decision responds to the alarming lack of demand and the consequent absence of passengers to fill the planes to the Caribbean island., and will also be extended to flights from Belgium due to the decrease in demand to the destination Cuba.

Precisely, The collapse of tourism on the Island reflects increasingly critical figures for a key sector in the regime's economy, what Last year it fell below 2 and a half million visitors, very far from the numbers that the government expected to achieve, set in the 3.5 million tourists.