Avianca insists on its merger with Viva Air: it details five proposals with which it intends to save the low-cost company

Following the recent announcement of Latam Airlines of your interest in buying live air, Avianca held this Wednesday, February 15, that the proposals of other air competitors for the low-cost company are “impracticable”for which he reiterated at Civil Aeronautics (Aerocivil) What actions would you take to save the Colombian airline if they approved your process of the integration.

“Avianca considers recent proposals from various competitors to be technically unfeasible, as any takeover of Viva would require, once the purchase is concluded, approval processes in various countries that would take time for the low cost this is clearly not the case,” the airline said in a statement.

Immediately afterwards, Avianca added: “For this reason, we question the true intention of these ‘offers’ from players who, after months of opposing integration and denying the existence of a , today want to appear as saviors with “solutions” that are missing credibility”.

With the above and taking into account that Aerocivil had requested adjustments to the conditions previously presented for the merger of the airline with Viva Air, Avianca detailed to the air authority the measures it would take to save the airline at low cost in the event that they are allowed to integrate into the same group of companies.

The bottom line, according to the airline, will be that if Civil Aeronautics gives them the green light to merge with Viva, they will deliver up to 105 take-off and landing authorizations (better known as slits) in the El Dorado International AirportIn Bogotáso any airline can operate up to 15 additional aircraft at the said terminal.

“With these spaces available in different time slots, which include those with the highest passenger traffic, any other airline with aircraft and investment capacity could begin operating up to 15 additional aircraft at El Dorado, the only airport in Colombia that today It has restrictions that limit free entry to airlines that want to compete,” the airline said.

Avianca also pointed out that, in its commitment to save Viva Air, they would keep the mark of the airline, its model low cost, in addition to the routes there planes that it currently operates, as well as all the jobs of its employees.

In accordance with the above, the airline has assured that it will also protect the prices there frequencies airlines in which Avianca and Vivar air together have a high market share.

In addition, according to Avianca, they will guarantee “that foreign airlines that distribute their passengers through Viva can continue to do so and with that their guaranteed access to the Colombian market”.

The airline’s latest proposal is to offer codeshare agreements to the Colombian state airline, Satinon the routes where the sole operator is located, so that the most isolated areas of the national territory can be connected via the Avianca destination network.

He Chairman and CEO of Avianca, Adrian Neuhausernoted that the purpose of the proposals is to respond “the authority’s concerns related to the protection of the air transport service, the balance of the market and its true vocation of attention to the users and workers of Viva. We hope that the authority will approve the integration with conditions, allowing Colombia to strengthen tourism as an engine of development”.

Immediately afterwards, Neuhauser added that since Colombia is one of the most competitive airline markets in the world, “The main thing in this discussion is not to weaken the actors who seek to stay and connect Colombia”.