Not in vain and according to official figures from the Civil Aeronautics, in the first week of last April, 1,336 direct frequencies were registered on international flights, which represented a growth of 14 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. In fact, the average (January-April), in reference to the growth in frequencies, is 11 percent. This growth from Colombia is directed to: the Caribbean and Central America, 15%; South America, 14%; North America, 13% and Europe 11%.
Emirates will cover the Dubai (United Arab Emirates) route with Bogotá daily, with a stopover in Miami (USA), a frequency of seven weekly flights and a capacity of 354 passengers on each flight.
Experience
Precisely with the first Emirates flight to Colombia, Alison Ángel arrived, a Colombian who has been working at Fly Emirates for 10 years, and who was part of the airline’s inaugural crew, and who was trained in the classrooms of the university institution. .
Hernández de Alba said that, due to the rise of commercial aviation globally, the demand for aeronautical personnel is imminent. “In the next two decades, 585,000 new pilots, 640,000 new technicians and 875,000 new cabin crews will be needed, according to figures reported in the GSF 2022 study by Airbus (Global Services Forecast).”
Emirates currently serves 136 destinations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific. In addition, the route awarded between Bogotá and Dubai has traffic rights of up to fifth freedom of the air (carrying and disembarking passengers, cargo and mail in third states) through the United States. The flights will have economy, business or business class and first class, on Boeing 777-200LR and 777-300ER aircraft, and each flight will carry 14 tons of cargo.
The aeronautical company belongs to the Emirates Group based in Dubai, and brings together the main travel, tourism and leisure brands in the East. This includes the Dnata brand, a ground services provider, completing an offer in transport and assistance with participation in retail, sports and leisure, facilitating a more active lifestyle.
More flights
On the other hand, and due to the departure of Viva and Ultra Air from the air market in Colombia, that year the airline JetSmart, a member of Indigo Partners, began to operate domestic flights with seven routes between the main cities of Colombia.
Likewise, Avianca, the company with the largest number of routes in Colombia and with more than 50% of slots (departure and landing permits) at El Dorado airport, announced that this year they will be opening 15 national and international flight routes.
In this sense, they have already opened the Bogotá-Caracas route and the flight between the Colombian capital and Montreal, in Canada.
At the same time, Latam Airlines Colombia, an airline that has 21.49% of the slots, reported that it already operates flights from Bogotá to Ibagué, with seven weekly frequencies with Airbus 320 aircraft with capacity for 174 passengers, which is expected to have with an offer of more than 9,000 seats per month to this destination.
On the other hand, there is the Bogotá-Madrid route, which will be carried out on Boeing 787-8 aircraft, with capacity for 247 passengers, in order to complete 29 national and 11 international routes and increase its offer of seats by 12% and mobilize more than 12 million people this year.
