Avianca has announced the start of its twice a week Bogota-Punta Cana-Bogota flight on 20 July linking the Colombian capital to the beach resorts of the east coast. The flights will be on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The airline will fly Airbus A319s with capacity for 120 passengers, including 12 in business class. Avianca already flies between Bogota and Santo Domingo four times a week, landing at the Las Americas International Airport.
Upon making the announcement, Avianca president Fabio Villegas Ramirez said the plan was to motivate more people to travel from South America to the Punta Cana area, world famous for its leisure and pleasure attractions.
He said the new schedules would also allow more efficient connections from Bogota to Caracas, Quito, Panama, Sao Paulo, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, as well as to the principal cities in Colombia.