Rafael Nunez International Airport of Cartagena

The Star Alliance member will enter the Colombia-Canada market in December.

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The route development consultancy Airport Strategy and Marketing (ASM) has worked with the Colombian city of Cartagena to secure its only direct route to Europe.

This will be the first time Cartagena will be linked non-stop to Europe in around ten years since AirMadrid offered flights from to the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Madrid back in the mid-2000s. Cartagena also successfully attracted flights from Italy with Blue Panorama Airlines at the start of this decade but these were purely on a charter basis.

LATAM Airlines is resurrecting the former LAN Peru link between Cartagena and Lima from January 2017, initially operating with four weekly frequencies using Airbus A320 equipment. This marks a significant growth in capacity versus when it was flown under the LAN Airlines guise between April 2009 and June 2011 when there were just two weekly rotations using a smaller A319 airliner.

ProColombia, the new name of the tourism and promotions organisation that was ProExport Colombia, is experiencing a rise in new international flights to the country as it takes the top spot for economic growth in the region.

The existing New York – Cartagena route from JetBlue has proved successful in connecting Cartagena with the North East United States and the carrier is hopeful of replicating this success further south with a new link from Fort Lauderdale which launches on October 29, 2014.

The airline plans new flights to Cartagena, Colombia and Las Vegas, Nevada and Jacksonville, Florida from October 29, 2014, the same day the airline will also launch its previously announced non-stop service to Pittsburgh.

It has been a long time coming, but Colombia’s improving international image as a safe tourism destination means that its flagship attraction, the

Scheduling for Routes Americas will close on Friday 1stFebruary, just one week from now! If your delegate package includes a diary of pre-scheduled

Earlier this week a fifth airline signed up to deliver a Route Exchange Airline Briefing during next month’s Routes Americas event which takes place

There have been some significant changes to aviation in South America and that is clearly evident in the Colombian market where the nation’s national

Why should you attend Routes Americas? Well, hopefully the stories in The HUB this week would have sold to you the value of the only route development

There are now 69 airline delegates registered for the 6th Routes Americas event and, with three weeks to go until the event opens, it looks likely

Taking place on Sunday 10th February 2013 and open to all attending delegates, The Routes Americas Strategy Summit, which is being held in association

Route Exchange Airline Briefings continue to go from strength to strength as is shown by the success of the briefings held during last year’s Routes

Sociedad Aeroportuaria de la Costa S.A. (SACSA) and its partners Cartagena de Indias, ProExport Colombia and The Ministry of Trade, Industry and