TAG Airlines launched a direct flight between Tegucigalpa and San Salvador, initially this route will be operated three times a week.
According to executives of the Guatemalan airline, the opening of this new route, which will be operated on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, is part of the growth plan that the company is currently executing.
Francisco Pahul, TAG's commercial director, told Elmundo.sv that "...
The Mexican airline Volaris will be suspending its services as of July 1, and the luxury resort hotel Mukul, in Guacalito, has announced the indefinite closure of its operations.
The crisis that has been going on in the country for the last month continues to harm the tourism business sector.The airline Volaris reported that it will temporarily suspend services to Managua from next week, and the luxury hotel Mukul Auberge Resorts Collection, in the South Pacific, announced on Friday that it will close its operations indefinitely.
The Honduran Tourism Institute has announced that the airline Air Europa will continue operating the flight between Honduras and Spain until April 2018.
Authorities from the Honduran Institute of Tourism (IHT) confirmed the airline's decision to continue providing the air service.
Sue Chávez, marketing manager for IHT, told Elheraldo.hn: " ...´We have been operating the service for six months with very good results, the average occupancy rate is above 80%.'"
The airline has announced that starting from December 2016 it will be operating two direct weekly flights between Panama City and Roatan Island.
The flights will depart from Panama City during the peak season in 2016-2017 on Thursdays and Sundays, and tickets will be available for sale from November 1st.
Eduardo Stagg, CEO of the airline, told Laestrella.com.pa that"...'This is the first time we are running a direct flight to Roatan, making the destination accessible to our customers'."
CM Airlines has announced that it will operate a weekly flight from Tegucigalpa to the aerodrome of Tela and from there to Roatan, plus two others to Copan and Gracias in Lempira.
Flights arriving at the airfield in Tela, inaugurated in May 2015, will depart from there to Roatan Island, along with the two other flights that CM Airlines plans to operate from Tegucigalpa to Copan and Gracias.
It has been announced that as of December Delta Airlines will increase its direct weekly flights from Atlanta to Roatan Island to two.
The announcement was made by the head of the Honduran Tourism Institute, Emilio Silvestri, adding that tourism operators on the island had stressed the need for greater air connectivity in order to increase tourism to the area.
Representatives from the cruise lines together with the Honduran authorities are defining new flights from Río Amarillo airport in the tourist center of Copán.
Boosting the domestic tourism sector through the Roatan / Copan / Gracias triangulation, which will be possible with the opening of the Celaque airfield in Gracias, Lempira and the Rio Amarillo Airfield in Copan, is the aim of sector authorities who will meet from 28 to 30 May with executives of the Federation of Rail Florida and the Caribbean (FCCA) in order to establish this route as a new option for cruise passengers arriving in Roatan.