Avianca is looking for a more efficient company in the coming years. The strategy includes the creation of its actual airline, with the launch of 50 new routes during the next three years and more flights without scales between cities, according to airline executives.
“Always our cost competes with the ‘hubs’ with the level of costs we incur, but now we have to be much more efficient, as we will be able to run direct flights from and often increase the cost of the ‘hubs'”, commented Anko van der Werff, CEO of Avianca.
For the 2021 mediation, the entry of six new routes is planned: Guatemala-New York (EUA), Guatemala-Washington DC (EUA), San José-Miami (EUA), Medellín-Cancún, Medellín-Punta Cana (Dominican Republic). This July we will start operating the route between San Salvador and the city of Ontario, California, United States, with three flights a week. All these flights do not have escalators.
The airline also announced that it will introduce a redesign in the interior of its aircraft to offer “more lightweight and comfortable” aids. His CEO added, in addition, that Avianca has increased its punctuality. In the case of El Salvador, the indicator of punctuality exceeds 96% in March, result.
As part of “Vuelo a tu medida”, Avianca will offer a bike with a “tariff limpia”, denominated XS. “It’s for the people who want a rate that is more competitive, we are assured that Avianca will attract a new audience more amplified in all markets”, sub-Van der Werff submits, then the idea is that “more people want with Avianca”.
Recently, the airline announced the temporary suspension of various routes to the United States, Europe, Central America and Suramerica to adjust its operations to passenger demand. Between the canceled flights, the routes depart from San Salvador to Dallas, Houston and Miami (EUA); ‘n Toronto (Canada), ya Ciudad de México.
Ayer, its CEO, explained that it is a decision on the aspect of evaluating the park el plazo, sobre vuelos para el segundo trimestre del año, ya destinos —en algunos casos – a los cuales de momento no pueden volar . “It’s all about the short plaza where we’re not going to’em a flat plate ‘, because we are more prudent with the new operations. But as he has seen in the median and the large plaza we are repeating all his capacity”, he explained.
Aerolines are optimistic about the future, with the impact that the pandemic will affect the aerospace industry by 2020 and that will mean multibillion-dollar losses for the airlines sector.
In 2020, the airline will be accommodated in Chapter 11 of the Bank of Bancarrota in the United States. This standard allows companies to reorganize their business and follow up with their operations.
“We are reorganizing both Chapter 11, and we are protecting our accreditors, ours for the time being to load our bonds, renegotiate them and look for efficiencies,” summed up Adrian Neuhauser, CFO’s executive vice president, who $ 1,200 million has been invested by private investors.
“We will not only protect the quay in the courtyard, but we will also create an avian avenue for our inversionists, customers and passengers in the future,” Neuhauser said.
The airline operates a connection center at El Salvador International Airport Monseñor Óscar Óscar Arnulfo Romero. As of this month, Avianca is operating 12 routes with more than 9,000 seats available in 68 weekly frequencies.
“The ‘hub’ is very efficient, works very well, always has a keyhole for us in Avianca. What TACA constructs in the last decades is impressive. Look at the ‘hub’, but the ‘hubs’ will work with increment our relevance in secondary cities in the region “, van der Werff points out, about the plan drawn up.
“We are a more efficient company at the moment, which allows us to provide capacity in other homes, which with the level of costs that we have before we make it,” concluded his CEO about his efforts for the coming years.