After almost five years, Royal Air Maroc is back in South America.
The Moroccan airline resumed services between Casablanca and Sao Paulo Guarulhos (Brazil) on December 7th. At 22:13 local time, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, registration CN-RGX, landed in the Brazilian city following a flight of 9 hours and 9 minutes.
Royal Air Maroc will offer, in line with our database, three weekly flights on this route with 787s, providing 909 seats a week on each leg.
Sao Paulo becomes Royal Air Maroc’s first destination in South America, and the sixth on the continent including North America. Miami, Montreal, New York JFK, Toronto and Washington DC are its other routes.
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In March 2020, as a result of the pandemic, Royal Air Maroc was forced to stop flying to Sao Paulo Guarulhos. In addition to GRU, the airline also operated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which suspension continues.
American Airlines resumes operations to Uruguay
At 10:08 local time on November 23rd, the first American Airlines flight from Miami arrived in Montevideo. The company will perform services between the United States and Uruguay through 2024/25 South American summer.
American will have three flights per week until the end of March 2025, and will offer one daily frequency from December 18th to February 12th, 2025 for peak season.
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Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú and Uruguay, American Airlines’ South American markets.
Azul starts services between Brazil and Paraguay
On December 2nd at 11:20 local time, Azul Linhas Aéreas’ first service landed at Silvio Pettirossi airport in the Paraguayan capital. The Brazilian airline will provide four routes between Brazil and Asunción, two of which will be regular year-round, while the remaining two will operate during summer 2024/25.
Campinas, Curitiba, Florianópolis and Recife will have Azul flights from Asunción, the latter two being seasonal routes.
As per its website, the airline will perform all four services with 136-seat, single-class Embraer E-2 aircraft.
Campinas · December 2nd
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Curitiba · December 3rd
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Recife · December 15th
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Florianópolis · December 18th
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Avion Express arrives in South America
The Lithuanian airline is operating in Argentina for Flybondi, a low cost carrier of the South American country.
Flybondi wet-leased three Airbus A320-200s from Avion Express, with Lithuanian registrations. These aircraft will operate with Avion Express crew, as well as AlbaStar’s Boeing 737-800s with AlbaStar crew, which were also leased by the Argentine airline last November.
In order to increase its fleet, especially for summer, Flybondi has decided to lease aircraft from foreign airlines, now possible after a modification of the Argentine Aeronautical Code. The Argentine government is modifying several aspects of Argentine aviation, including open skies agreements with other countries, with the aim of increasing international and domestic connectivity.
Avion Express’ Airbus A320s will operate for Flybondi until March 2025.
Flybondi’s fleet
Boeing 737-800: 17
- LV-HKN
- LV-KAH
- LV-KAY
- LV-KCD
- LV-KCE
- LV-KDQ
- LV-KDR
- LV-KEF
- LV-KEG
- LV-KEH
- LV-KGN
- LV-KHO
- LV-KJD
- LV-KJE
- LV-KJF
- EC-MUB (AlbaStar)
- EC-NLK (AlbaStar)
Airbus A320-200: 3
- LY-MLJ (Avion Express)
- LY-VEL (Avion Express)
- LY-MLG (Avion Express)
Flybondi is expected to incorporate 2 more A320s from Avion Express soon.
We review other highlights of the Latin American market
As of January 8th, 2025, Aerolíneas Argentinas will boost its flights between Buenos Aires and Salvador de Bahía for summer. The airline will increase from 7 to 10 weekly services to the Brazilian city from Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport, in the Argentine capital.
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New flight · eff January 8th, 2025
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In addition to Buenos Aires, Aerolíneas Argentinas will inaugurate operations between Córdoba and Salvador in January 2025, which will be offered during summer 2025.
More services within Mexico.
Aerus commenced in November two routes from Minatitlán, which it will provide with Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft, each six times a week.
Veracruz
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Villahermosa
Daily except Saturday
After nearly three years of suspension, Air Canada will resume flights to Trinidad and Tobago. Services, departing from Toronto, will begin on May 1st, 2025.
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Air Canada will operate with Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets.
The airline returns to Cuba.
Avianca will restart its services to Havana effective December 16th, with a new route from Bogotá. According to its website, the company will fly seven times weekly using Airbus A320neo planes.
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Avianca will join Boliviana de Aviación, Conviasa and LATAM, other South American airlines operating to Havana and Cuba.
The Brazilian airline incorporated two Airbus A321-200(P2F), the first of this type in Brazil and also in South America. Both aircraft arrived from Jinan (China), where both were converted to freighters.
On October 17th, the first A321, with registration PS-AJA, landed in Belo Horizonte, while the second aircraft, registered PS-AJB, arrived two weeks later. The two A321(P2F) are currently parked in Campinas, and are scheduled to start operations in Q1 2025.
Azul Cargo becomes the second Brazilian airline to have Airbus A321(F). It joins Levu Air Cargo, which added its first Airbus A321-212PCF (PS-LVU) in May.
New routes in the Caribbean.
The U.S. airline will add new services from St. Kitts and St. Thomas, which will be operated with Cessna aircraft.
In accordance with its website, these will be the three new routes:
St. Kitts (Basseterre) – Nevis · December 7th
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St. Kitts (Basseterre) – St. Thomas · December 7th
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St. Thomas – Vieques · December 20th
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Beginning December 17th, Caribbean Airlines will resume service between Kingston, Jamaica, and Fort Lauderdale. The company will operate three times per week on 188-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes.
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Fort Lauderdale (from POS and NAS), Miami, New York JFK and Orlando are Caribbean Airlines’ destinations in the United States.
The airline launched wide-body flights between Atlanta and San Juan (Puerto Rico) as of December 10th, starting with selected days, moving to a daily frequency from January 2025.
Daily (Jan 2025)
Effective February 4th, 2025, GOL Linhas Aéreas will inaugurate operations between the capitals of Brazil and Colombia. The carrier will have three weekly flights with 186-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, becoming the only operator on this route.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
In addition, GOL will cease services to Bogotá from Sao Paulo in December, and will also discontinue operations from BOG to Buenos Aires beginning February 3rd, 2025.
InterCaribbean’s first flight to Georgetown took off from Grenada at 12:50 local time on December 1st. Guyana is the airline’s first market in South America, which will serve twice a week on 50-seat Embraer 145s.
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LATAM Airlines launched several routes within Latin America between late November and early December from its main hubs, Santiago de Chile and Lima.
In some cases these are post-pandemic restarts, while others are new routes.
At 06:19 local time on November 1st, PLAY’s first charter flight from Miami landed in Havana. The Icelandic airline will operate charters between the United States and Cuba for Global X, from November to March 2025.
Havana, Holguín and Santa Clara will be the Cuban cities with charter flights, mainly offered from Miami and Tampa.
PLAY will serve with the Airbus A321-251N registered as TF-PLA, which is configured for 214 passengers in single class. The aircraft arrived in Miami on October 29th from Reykjavik on a ferry flight.
At the end of October, Rutaca inaugurated its services to Puerto España (Port of Spain) from Porlamar, to be operated three times weekly on Boeing 737-300s with a capacity for 149 passengers.
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The capital of Trinidad and Tobago has flights to Caracas and Porlamar, with respect to Venezuelan cities.
The Colombian airline continues to expand its domestic flights, with the launch of two new routes starting in December, in addition to increasing frequencies on an existing service.
Servicio Aéreo a Territorios Nacionales, also known as SATENA, will provide this schedule:
SATENA will operate these routes with 19-seat Beechcraft 1900 aircraft.
On November 28th, at 16:05 local time, the first SKY Airline flight from Santiago de Chile landed at Luis Candelaria airport in Bariloche. This seasonal route, as in previous summers, will be operated until March of next year.
SKY will fly four times per week during summer 2024/25, in contrast to the three weekly flights performed last summer.
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Furthermore, as we commented in the LATAM section, the Chilean airline inaugurated services between Santiago de Chile and Bariloche on December 6th. For the first time, SKY will have a direct competitor on this route, and LATAM Chile returned to operate the SCL-BRC service after almost seven years.
Regarding SKY and Argentina, the low cost carrier will start flying to El Calafate (FTE) from Santiago (SCL) on December 18th, a city located in the Argentine Patagonia.
Puerto Escondido, United’s new destination in Mexico.
The company will begin operations from Houston with Mesa Airlines Embraer 175 aircraft starting April 5th, 2025. In line with its website, United Airlines will fly once a week:
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Flights with Boeing 737-200?
Venezolana intends to serve the Maracaibo-Porlamar route with its Boeing 737-200, which is 47 years old.
According to its website, this is the schedule offered between the two cities, although the aircraft used are not shown:
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Avior and Estelar Latinoamérica are other Venezuelan airlines that have Boeing 737-200s in their fleets. The same occurs in Colombia, with Aerosucre.
The Mexican carrier will add a new route to the United States on April 2nd, 2025.
Viva will fly between Querétaro and Dallas Fort/Worth with 180-seat Airbus A320-200 aircraft, twice-weekly:
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As we announced in our United States and Canada report, these are other routes to be introduced by Viva to the US, as well as Volaris.
Starting December 18th, the Medellín-based Colombian airline will expand its international schedule with two new routes. Wingo will operate both services on 186-seat Boeing 737-800s.
From Medellín
Balboa, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Cancún, Caracas, Cartagena, Oranjestad, Punta Cana, Santa Marta and Santo Domingo are its current routes to/from MDE.
Z Air, an airline of the Netherlands Antilles, made a significant step in its fleet, with the addition of the first Embraer.
The Embraer ERJ-140LR, registration N841AE, is 22 years old and has a 44-seat single-class configuration. Between 2002 and 2020, the aircraft operated for American Eagle, Envoy and Regional One, when it was stored at Marana in November 2020.
Consistent with our database, the aircraft has been at Carbondale Murphysboro since November 12th, at the time of publication. A photo of the aircraft at this airport (MDH/KMDH) was uploaded to JetPhotos, where it can be seen that it has already received the Z Air livery.
With this incorporation, Z Air reaches four planes in its fleet.
Aircraft added by Latin American airlines
| Aircraft | Airline | Registration | Ferry flight | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A320-251N | avianca | N904AV | TLS-KEF-YYR-GUA | November 8th |
| Airbus A320-271N | JetSMART | CC-DIP | BFM-SCL | November 15th |
| Airbus A320-232 | Avion Express | LY-MLJ | AYT-HAJ-KEF-YUL-MIA-TRU-EZE | November 21st |
| Airbus A320-232 | Avion Express | LY-VEL | VNO-KEF-YUL-MIA-TRU-EZE | November 23rd |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | Copa | HP-9802CMP | PAE-SJO | November 27th |
| ATR 72-600 | Air Caraïbes | F-OSIL | TLS-LPA-RAI-FOR-PTP | November 28th |
| Airbus A320-271N | Volaris | N552VL | TLS-KEF-YQX-MEX | November 29th |
| Airbus A320-232 | Avion Express | LY-MLG | AYT-HAJ-KEF-YUL-MIA-TRU-EZE | December 3rd |
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Cover photo: Hongyu Wang – JetPhotos
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