Viva Air, which has stopped operations since February 27, said goodbye to the air market yesterday, stating that no longer has the capacity to operate.
The 10-year-old company argued a financial crisis and after nine months and after waiting for a rescue to integrate with Avianca, it found that it was not possible to meet the requirements of civil aeronautics and saw its end.
Viva added that the outcome that destroys a company and all the value around it, is due to a lack of understanding of the business.
The airline had an offer of around 46 routes and 26 destinations, including seven internationals. Although at the close of operations it only had 16, it served markets such as the United States (Miami), Mexico (Cancun), the Dominican Republic, Peru (Cuzco), Argentina and Brazil (Sao Paulo).
Locally, it traveled to Bogotá, Armenia, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Cali, Cúcuta, Leticia, Medellín, Montería, Neiva, Pasto, Pereira, Riohacha, San Andrés, Santa Marta, Valledupar and Villavicencio.
Viva Air travelers in Rionegro
Jaiver Nieto Alvarez/ETCE
In 2022, Viva launched five destinations, 14 national routes and two international, thus reaching Armenia, Neiva, Pasto, Valledupar and Villavicencio; and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
Among the routes, which were in force until February 27 of this year, were from San Andrés to Armenia; Bucaramanga and Pereira; from Armenia to Cartagena and Medellín; from Cartagena to Cúcuta, Neiva, Pasto and Villavicencio; the one that goes from Pereira to Riohacha.
And in the international ones, those that transited from Cartagena to Mexico, from Buenos Aires to Medellín and from Sao Paulo also to the capital of Antioquia.
It was these frequencies and offer when joining Avianca with Viva that led the Aeronautics to make the determination to request changes, since together Avianca and the low cost mobilized 57 percent of the domestic passengers of Colombia in 2021, which would not be balanced. for other companies in the country.
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