Jetsmart will compete with Avianca and Latam with 3 routes to San Andrés

Jetsmart Colombia begins to compete with Avianca and Latam, as it begins its operation to San Andrés from Medellín, Pereira and Cartagena, as of June 27, as revealed by Aerocivil to REPORTUR.co.

According to several tourism actors, San Andrés no longer has connectivity problems, but rather demand problems. “It is a situation of demand and not of supply, the occupancy factors demonstrate it, if it were the other way around it would be that people did not have a way to access the aircraft or that prices were high, with the entry of Jetsmart and with everything that “It has been happening around the island under study that we have prices have been going down,” he told REPORTUR.coSergio Paris, director of Civil Aeronautics.

Likewise, through the implementation of air connectivity tables, progress is made towards this objective, “allowing collaboration between different actors and the creation of commitments to improve access to the archipelago, in 2023 the authorization of charter Flights and the priority allocation of slots for Flights to the island, which positively impacted the region from the second half of 2023,” Aeronautics said to this digital.

As reported REPORTUR.coAfter a year of Viva Air and Ultra Air leaving the market, San Andrés has not managed to recover connectivity. Apparently, it has nothing to do with increasing the frequencies of companies like Avianca and Latam, since their Flights have an occupancy between 75% and 80% when they should be at 100%, so the airlines consider that they need greater demand, This was indicated at the time REPORTUR.co, Paula Cortés, president of Anato. (Anato: Avianca and Latam suffer low demand towards San Andrés).

“The airlines, both Avianca and Latam, have told me that the average occupancy of their planes is between 75% and 80%, let’s say that that is a good occupancy for an airline to be able to be in, but they should go to 100%. ”, Cortés commented at the time to this digital.