Easyfly continues rearming to recover 100% of its operations, adding a new ATR 42-600 and increasing the frequency on several routes.
Last Thursday it received the ATR 42-600 with registration HK-5351, being the seventeenth aircraft in its fleet. It departed on July 30 from the Toulouse (TLS) factory in France and arrived in Bogotá (BOG) on August 4, prior stopover in Reykjavik (KEF) in Iceland, Halifax (YHZ) in Canada and Nassau (NAS) in the Bahamas.
With this income, its fleet is made up of two ATR 42-500s (aircraft to be replaced) with capacity for 48 seats, ten ATR 42-600s with capacity for 48 passengers and five ATR 72-600s with 70 seats.
Easyfly has been carrying out an expansion plan throughout the country focusing on connecting all the provinces and sub-regions. During late May, Mitú (MVP), Puerto Inírida (PDA) and San José del Guaviare (SJE) flights were inaugurated.
The company already operates in most of the country’s departments, missing connecting the jurisdictions of Amazonas, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, San Andrés and Providencia, La Guajira and Magdalena.
Easyfly’s expansion comes after obtaining the approval of its Reorganization Agreement by the Superintendency of Companies of Colombia last March, which allowed the restructuring of debts for approximately 269 billion Colombian pesos, including financial relief tools established in the insolvency ecosystem, such as the flexibility of payments of the obligations and sustainable debt pact.
New frequencies
Among the routes that increase their frequencies are:
- Bogotá (BOG) – Florence (FLA) – Bogotá (BOG), eleven to twelve weekly flights, from Monday to Friday two daily flights.
- Bogotá (BOG) – Popayán (PPN) – Bogotá (BOG), from six to seven weekly flights, every day.
- Bogotá (BOG) – San José del Guaviare (SJE) – Bogotá (BOG), from two to four weekly flights; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The route is a real success, which managed to transport more than 2,000 passengers and aims to reach a daily flight.
- Medellín / Olaya Herrera (EOH) – Armenia (AXM) – Medellín / Olaya Herrera (EOH), from six to thirteen weekly flights, two daily flights every day except Thursday.
- Medellín / Olaya Herrera (EOH) – Pasto (PSO) – Medellín / Olaya Herrera (EOH), from one to three weekly flights; Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
- Medellín / Olaya Herrera (EOH) – Ibagué (IBE) – Medellín / Olaya Herrera (EOH), from three to five weekly flights; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
- Cúcuta (CUC) – Arauca (AUC) – Cúcuta (CUC), from three to five weekly flights, from Monday to Friday.