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Avianca Will Function Lengthy-Haul Routes With Leased Wamos Air Airbus A330s

7 months ago 3 min read

South American service Avianca has introduced a moist lease settlement with Spanish agency Wamos Air, which can function some long-haul flights from Bogota El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG) and San Salvador Worldwide (SAL).

A brand new moist lease settlement

On Wednesday, Avianca introduced it’s going to quickly function Bogota-Los Angeles and San Salvador-Madrid with wet-leased Wamos Air plane. Wamos Air is a Spanish constitution service with a fleet of ten Airbus A330s (each -200s and -300s). Each are new routes, at present not provided by Avianca.

Wamos Air will function the route San Salvador-Madrid between June 20 and September 20. The Bogota-Los Angeles route will likely be served by Wamos Air between April 20 and October 28. It should deploy its Airbus A330-200 fleet on each routes. Nonetheless, the A330-200 for the Los Angeles route may have the capability to hold 241 passengers, whereas the A330 for the Madrid route will carry as much as 280 passengers.

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Wamos Air charters flights for different airways globally, comparable to Air Serbia and Air New Zealand. For the service primarily based in New Zealand, Wamos Air flies each day the route Auckland-Perth, whereas for Air Serbia it flies from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG) to John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) in New York.

Avianca expects to obtain further Boeing 787s

Reaching a moist lease settlement with Wamos Air was out of necessity. Avianca stated that it’s getting ready to include new further Boeing 787 Dreamliners and that, within the meantime, it has contracted Wamos Air.

Final December, Avianca stated it will inaugurate at the least 20 point-to-point routes in 2023 and incorporate 16 new Airbus A320neos, 11 A320ceos, and three Boeing 787 Dreamliners. As of April 2023, Avianca has 13 Dreamliners.

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In line with information from Cirium, Avianca at present operates 164 weekly flights using its widebody fleet. That’s about 12.6 flights per plane per week. The common size of Avianca’s flights with the 787s is about 3,740 miles (about 6,000 kilometers). Avianca’s most essential route with its widebody fleet is Bogota-Madrid, on which it affords three each day flights. The second-most essential route is Bogota-Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), with 14 weekly.

Avianca’s Boeing 787 fleet has the capability to hold as much as 250 passengers in a two-class configuration (222 seats in financial system and 28 in enterprise).

What can Avianca clients anticipate?

In a press release, Avianca stated its clients can anticipate the identical degree of service onboard Wamos Air’s wet-leased plane. The corporate added that moist leasing is a typical follow within the airline trade in search of to help industrial airline operations when vital, comparable to further flights for prime season or to take care of capability within the route community.

Prospects who already had reservations on these flights have been notified of the change of operator. When onboard, they’ll obtain the identical meals and beverage menu, in addition to in-flight consolation gadgets, stated Avianca. They may have entry to the leisure system, and any further providers beforehand bought will likely be honored. The itinerary of the flight is not going to change, and the flight quantity will stay the identical.

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