Starting in August, Avianca plans to start operating new direct routes between the Salvadoran capital and the cities of Boston and Orlando.
The airline reported that both flights will have four frequencies per week and will depart from Monsenor Óscar Arnulfo Romero and Galdámez International Airport. The flight to Orlando will be inaugurated on August 1 and the route to Boston will begin on August 17.
The low-cost airline Wingo has announced that from July it will be increasing the number of flights from Panama to the cities of Cali, Bogota and Medellín.
According to a representatives from the airline,"... from July, flights from Panama to Cali will increase from 2 to 3 frequencies a week, from Panama to Medellín from 4 to 5 and to Bogota [there will be] a daily flight."
The country has strengthened a key factor in the tourism industry, which had suffered a blow when Avianca / Taca stopped operating its regional hub at the Juan Santamaria Airport.
The available seats going to the airport terminal in the main tourist area of Costa Rica, Daniel Oduber International Airport, increased by 57%.
The Turkish airline will fly on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from Istanbul to Bogota, and from there to Panama, and from Panama direct to Istanbul.
Referring to Wednesday, May 4, an article on Critica.com.pa reported that this Wednesday "... the national airline of Turkey based in Istanbul, today inaugurated a route between Istanbul and Panama, making the Central American country its 14th destination within its expansion project in America.
Air France will increase to six the number of flights per week between France and Tocumen International Airport, starting from November 2015.
The growth in demand in Europe, coupled with the success of the agreement between the French airline and the government of Panama to subsidize flights explain part of the airline's decision to raise the number of flights per week it will operate from November 2015 to six.
A company founded with Panamanian capital, led by tourism entrepreneurs, has started offering private flights on the isthmus, Mexico, northern South America and the Caribbean.
Fly Executive has started operations in Panama offering private flights with a new fleet of jets with a base of operations at the airport Marcos A. Gelabert, in Albrook.
Avianca has announced adjustments to their operations involving layoffs of flight crew based in Costa Rica and the flight from San Jose to Mexico now going via San Salvador.
Avianca has announced that it has removed three of the Embraer aircraft used in flights to Costa Rica also clarified that services from San Jose to Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile, all via Bogotá will not be suspended, only the number of flight will be changed.
The company Taxis Aéreos de El Salvador has obtained permission to operate domestic flights from San Salvador to the east of the country, and plans to operate routes to Guatemala and Honduras.
Certification to operate in the country was granted on November 24, 2014, with flights expected to start from this month, going from San Salvador, in the Ilopango airport, to La Union, San Miguel and Santa Rosa de Lima.
The airline of Salvadoran origin VECA Airlines, which announced in November promotions for their first flights in the region, is not yet operating at 100%.
The airline Vuelos Económicos Centroamericanos (VECA) has not yet started to operate the routes announced in November and has not taken steps to expand its flights to destinations in the United States.
With the entry of two competitors focusing on the business of low-cost fares, the airline market in Central America is preparing for a potential price war.
Panama has become the starting point for tourists looking to travel to the rest of Central America, where new airlines want to capitalize on a market which so far has been driven Copa Airlines and Avianca.
Increased air connectivity in the country is one of the factors explaining the reduction of passengers arriving in the country from aboard on charter flights, going from 136,000 in 2012 to 82,000 in 2013.
According to the Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP) figures for this year are not yet available, but a similar decline is expected. The decrease in passengers traveling on charter flights is due to the supply of flights having incorporated more scheduled flights, which experienced a 4% increase in the number of passengers between January and October this year.
From May 2015 the airline Aeromexico will operate a daily frequency between Mexico City and Panama City.
From a statement by Aeromexico:
Aeromexico, announced that as of May 14, 2015 will offer a daily flight between Mexico City and Panama, making this its 16th destination in Latin America.
This new route will be operated using Boeing 737-700 craft with capacity for 124 passengers, 12 in First Class.
Spirit Airlines plans to increase the number of flights it operates from San Pedro Sula to five a week and open, in the future, a frequency between Tegucigalpa and Miami.
Up until now the airline has operated frequencies from San Pedro Sula to several cities in the United States and Canada, but is now examining, together with the Honduran government, the ability to operate in the short term, flights between Tegucigalpa and Miami.
The arrival of new competitors with frequencies between Colombia and Central America has generated a reduction in rates, favoring customers.
The opening of routes from Medellin and Bogota to Panama, by the airlines AirPanama and VivaColombia with fares "... up to 70% less than those offered by the subsidiary of Copa Holdings" is already generating benefits to travelers.
A 10% increase is projected in the number of Canadian tourists visiting El Salvador when the agreement between the governments becomes official.
During the six month long winter season from December to May, about 16 million Canadians leave their country in search of warm destinations in the Caribbean and Central America, and on average, about 25,000 of them come to El Salvador.