At 2:40 (local time) this Monday, Arajet’s first flight landed between Santo Domingo and Santiago de Chile. This new route opens a new connection possibility to the Chilean market with cities such as Montreal/Trudeao (YUL) and Toronto/Pearson (YYZ), Canada; Mexico City (NLU) and Cancun (CUN), México; San Jose (SJO), Costa Rica; Guatemala City (GUA), San Salvador (SAL), El Salvador; and Santiago de los Caballeros (STI) through Santo Domingo’s Las Americas (SDQ) airport, in addition to a shuttle service to Punta Cana.
Arajet schedule between Santo Domingo and Santiago de Chile
- Santo Domingo – Santiago flight DM 187 SDQ 18:00 – 03:00 (+1) SCL / Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
- Santiago – Santo Domingo flight DM 188 SCL 04:35 – 11:35 SDQ / Monday, Tuesday and Friday.
Flights will be operated with Boeing 737-8 aircraft with capacity for 185 passengers, providing 1,110 seats per week. Arajet will be the only operator to connect the Dominican capital with Santiago de Chile, as LATAM currently operates once a week to Punta Cana.
Arajet expands in South America
By the end of the year, the Dominican company will operate in eight cities in South America. Bogota (BOG), Cartagena (CTG) and Medellin/Rionegro (MDE), Colombia; Guayaquil (GYE) and Quito (UIO), Ecuador; Lima (LIM), Peru; São Paulo/Guarulhos (GRU), Brazil; and the recently inaugurated Santiago (SCL), Chile, will be joined, as of November 14, by Buenos Aires/Ezeiza (EZE), Argentina.
Arajet plans to end 2023 with double its current fleet of five 185-passenger Boeing 737-8s. However, it has placed an order for 35 Boeing 737 MAX 8-200s, the high-density version of the MAX that can accommodate up to 210 passengers.
The low cost has three Boeing 737-8 HI 1098 «Laguna Ronda Miches», HI 1103 «Bahía de las Aguilas» and HI 1104, yet to be named.
In April 2023, the airline introduced 42 round-trip connections, operating twice a week to and from 9 of the 17 countries in its route network. «What we promised is now a reality: Arajet offers connections and brings 9 countries in our network of 11 destinations closer together at low fares so that more people can fly for the first time, visit friends and family, or go sightseeing in our region,» said Victor Pacheco, CEO and founder of Arajet, at the time.
