The Mexican carrier plans to begin flights from El Salvador following the introduction of a new law that offers incentives to airlines that establish or increase operations in Honduras.
Avianca, which offered almost 40 million seats on routes across Latin America last year, has filed for bankruptcy protection after travel bans across the region forced the airline to ground its fleet.
Speaking exclusively to Routesonline during the air service development forum in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week Jose Napoleon Duarte said airlines should start passing on significant reductions in ticket cost to consumers following the fall in the price of oil to about $30 a barrel. And he urged all sides of the industry to use the Routes events as a forum to bring the issue to a head and start discussing ways to solve it.