Barceló and Globalia, together with their company Ávoris Corporació Empresarial, plan to create an airline based in the Dominican Republic.
It is expected to start operating from May under the name Iberojet. The company has public financial support of 320 million managed by the State Society of Industrial Holdings (SEPI)., As reported by the media Reporter.
The airline will fly from the Dominican Republic to countries emitting Latin America, the United States and Canada.
“We are focused on the Spanish market and we believe that we can grow in Spain but also in other European countries such as Italy, France or Germany with a model similar to that of Portugal, where we have a network of offices, tour operator and airline,” said the president of Ávoris, Vicente Fenollar, in an interview with the Spanish media Expansión.
Ávoris has six long-haul and one short-haul aircraft, as well as a fleet made up of Evelop and Orbest airlines.
The Iberojet brand was bought at auction by the Barceló Group after the bankruptcy of Orizonia.
Another airline will land in the Caribbean
The World2Fly airline, created by the Iberostar subsidiary, World2Meet (W2M), will land in the Caribbean from June 19, with flights from Barajas to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Cancun, Mexico, and Havana (Cuba), with two weekly flights to each destination.
From its second hub, which will be Lisbon (Portugal), World2Meet will start in July, operating the same Caribbean destinations but less frequently, according to Preferente.com.
The new airline will operate its routes with 1 A350 aircraft they will be receiving soon and an A330 they received in January. The company does not rule out increasing its operation, which will depend directly on demand, according to what was reported by Reportur.