With Volarios El Salvador, the airline seeks to replicate the success it has achieved in Mexico, where it was born in 2006, and is now the largest in the domestic market.
Economy
José A. Barrera
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 • 7:30 p.m.
The low cost airline Volaris received this Tuesday, August 24 the Air Operation Certification and Operation Permit from the Salvadoran Civil Aviation Authority (AAC).
The endorsement allows the airline to establish a Fly El Salvador (Fly El Salvador), A new subsidiary in the territory with which it ensures its expansion plan in Central America.
The AAC and the airline resume this year a procedure that was delayed by the covid-19 pandemic, which was confirmed to El Mundo newspaper by Enrique Beltranena, CEO of the company, in June.
“Our mission as a government institution is to work on projects that promote the development of our country’s aviation sector, where our technical team joins the articulated work for the early start of Volaris operations as a national flagline airline” , reported yesterday the AAC on his Twitter account where he posted photos of the ceremony to which the endorsement was given.
Beltranena said two months ago that local authorities had been very positive with the process and had provided management support. “We have met absolutely all the technical and aeronautical requirements required and we would be doing the certification process called ‘FA129’, which is the approval of the maintenance program as the aircraft is ‘November’ (US) registration,” detailed then.
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First route to Mexico
Volaris El Salvador will begin operations on September 15, 2021 with the San Salvador-Mexico City route and on October 15 with San Salvador-Cancun. In the same way, the San Salvador-San Pedro Sula route will start operating on 31 October
The low-cost airline began operations in the country through its subsidiary in Costa Rica, with which it established stops in El Salvador and Guatemala to connect with cities in the United States, such as Los Angeles and Washington.
“We want to do an aviation project for Central America. The commitment is to focus on giving a key element in its economic development,” Beltranena explained in June.
The executive said they are looking for the new company to show authorities and the world that a project well overseen and managed by an experienced team can expand beyond Central America, but also achieve the goal of drive the low-cost model, which is expected to begin to take shape in October with the Salvadoran subsidiary’s first flight to San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
The procedure gives new wings to the airline industry established in the country, where the Colombian Avianca already has a connection center for the region at the Salvador San Óscar Romero International Airport, steps that will also be followed by Volaris
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Photo of the awards given by the AAC last night at the ceremony attended by officials of the entity and executives of the airline. PHOTO / AAC
The company seeks to replicate the success it has achieved in Mexico, where it was born in 2006, and is now the largest in the domestic market. This year, in the midst of the aeronautical crisis, the financial giant Deutsche Bank placed Volaris as the fastest recovering airline in the world.
“Volaris, the largest domestic airline in Mexico, is on track to not only exceed in June 2021 the gains recorded in the same period in 2019, but is also on track to generate a very high profit margin larger, ”describes a financial report from the German bank.
Volaris will be the second Salvadoran-flagged airline after Avianca, following the liquidation of the Central American Economic Flights (Veca) operation, a firm that was born in 2015 under the auspices of the group of companies of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Albapetroleos), but which closed operations abruptly in January 2017.
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Avianca, meanwhile, operates several aircraft with the national badges, some registrations began with the former Air Transport of the American Continent (TACA), a Salvadoran company with which Avianca ended up operating in 2013, a movement that gave way to Avianca Holdings.