The low-cost airline Viva Air announced the indefinite suspension of its regional flights, including Peru.
Thousands of passengers, including Peruvians, were affected by the suspension of flights by the low-cost airline Viva Air. Through a statement, the Colombian company announced the cessation of its operations indefinitely until it can resolve its financial problems. For now, your aircraft fleet has stood still until new notice. What happened to Viva Air and what must happen for it to resume its flights? We tell you here.
What happened to Viva Air?
Viva Air faces a financial crisis that makes it impossible for you to continue with your operations. Through a statement, he blamed the Civil Aviation of Colombia for not having taken a decision that would allow join Avianca and accept interested third parties, such as JetSmart, Aerolíneas Argentinas and Latam Airlines.
“While operations are suspended, Viva will continue operations with creditors under Decree 560 procedures and will work to preserve its ability to restart operations at a future date, assuming Civil Aeronautics immediately approves the pending alliance,” it says. Viva Air’s pronouncement.
Viva Air: what must happen for it to resume its flights?
According to the airline’s position, everything will depend on Civil Aeronautics to allow it to be part of the group of airlines that make up this category in order to function properly. After the internal and financial crisis, the Colombian company has been presenting the records of its economic problems to the Government of Gustavo Petro in order to support its request for support.
The owner of the voting rights of Viva AirCastlesouth Limited, reacted to the Civil Aeronautics decision to accept interested third parties in the Avianca-Viva caseand warned that “If AeroCivil does not act and Viva disappears from the market, the Colombian government will have privileged the interests of airlines managed from Argentina, Panama, Chile and the United States about ‘Viva’ itself”.
If there is no agreement with the parties in question, according to Viva Air, more than 5,000 workers will be affected, who “directly and indirectly depend on the airline.” Finally, the company hopes that the authorities can take the financial situation of the organization as an “exception of companies in crisis.”
Latam Peru will cover passengers free of charge
After the temporary cessation of Viva Air operationsLatam Airlines Peru announced through a release that will cover free of charge the flights of the Colombian airline passengers that had already been scheduled. In its statement, Latam Peru explained the procedure that affected people must follow in order to occupy the available seats on direct flights from Lime.
In this way, passengers Viva Air Those who have a flight date between Monday, February 27 and Thursday, March 2, 2023, and have purchased their tickets before Monday, February 27 of this year, can access “this free protection”. To do this, they must appear at the Latam sales counters in the airportwith your Viva Air boarding pass, which must detail that your flight was scheduled within the indicated dates.
Source: Larepublica
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