San Diego will join Copa Airlines’ regular schedule beginning June 25th.
The Panamanian carrier will fly from Panama City’s Tocumen International Airport with Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft configured for 174 passengers in three classes (12 Business, 24 Economy Extra and 138 Economy), four times a week.
Copa Airlines is the main operator in the Panama – U.S. market offering currently 15 routes, all of them to/from the Panamanian capital. According to our database, the company has about 220 weekly flights in this market, between Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington DC.
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Routes between Panama and United States – Copa Airlines
American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are the U.S. carriers operating to Panama City.
Arajet to fly between Santo Domingo and Newark
Another Latin American airline will add a new destination in the United States.
Effective June 16th, Arajet will inaugurate its flights to Newark, which it will provide four times per week by Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets. Considering New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, Delta and Frontier will be Arajet’s competitors, and United to/from EWR.
Following 30 years, a Dominican airline will once again operate between the Dominican Republic and New York (EWR and/or JFK). In addition, Newark will be the second US destination for Arajet after Miami, to be launched in early June from Santo Domingo and Punta Cana.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
At the time of publication, the company will serve between Santo Domingo and Newark, although sales from/to PUJ are scheduled to begin soon.
Aruba, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Cancún, Cartagena, Guatemala City, Guayaquil, Kingston, Lima, Medellín, Mexico City, Montreal, San José (Costa Rica), San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Santiago de los Caballeros, Sao Paulo, Toronto and Willemstad are its other destinations.
JetSMART Argentina incorporates its first Airbus A321neo
The low cost carrier continues growing strongly in Argentina, with the arrival of its first Airbus A321neo. As per our database, the aircraft, with Chilean registration CC-AWW, arrived at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires on February 20th at 05:55 local time, where it was officially presented to the press along with executives and guests hours later.
After its presentation, it departed Aeroparque for Ezeiza, another airport located in Buenos Aires, remaining grounded there until its first scheduled flight with JetSMART Argentina, which took place on March 5th.
This Airbus A321neo landed from Santiago de Chile, the headquarters of the JetSMART Group. Additionally, on March 6th and 7th, two more A321neo were incorporated by JetSMART Argentina, also carrying the Chilean registry (CC-DIF and CC-DIC).
JetSMART Argentina reaches 15 aircraft in its fleet, being the largest fleet among its four subsidiaries.
Fleet
Airbus A320-200: 11
- LV-HEK
- LV-HVT
- LV-IVN
- LV-IVO
- LV-JQE
- LV-KDP
- LV-KFX
- LV-KJA
- CC-AWA
- CC-AWC
- CC-AWE
A320neo: 1
Airbus A321neo: 3
JetSMART’s A321neo are configured for 240 passengers in single class.
Eight of JetSMART Argentina’s aircraft are Argentine-registered (LV) and the remaining seven are Chilean-registered (CC).
¡Hola Madrid! Azul arrives in the Spanish capital
Azul Linhas Aéreas will start flights to Spain as of June 9th from Campinas International Airport, its main hub in Brazil. Operations will be carried out on Airbus A330-900neo planes, with a capacity for 298 passengers.
Madrid will become Azul’s fourth destination in Europe after Lisbon and Paris Orly. Furthermore, the airline confirmed in February the beginning of services to Porto, which will commence in June to/from Campinas and Recife with A330neo and Boeing 767-300(ER), respectively.
Campinas – Madrid · June 9th
VCP – MAD
MAD – VCP
Campinas – Porto · June 1st
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Regarding South America, Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras will fly for the first time between Campinas and Montevideo. These services, to begin on July 1st, will be offered five times per week by 136-seat Embraer E195-E2s.
Campinas – Montevideo · July 1st
Daily except Wednesday and Sunday
Asunción (Paraguay), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Punta del Este (Uruguay) are its regular destinations in South America excluding its important network in Brazil. Bariloche and Mendoza, both in Argentina, are seasonal.
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After a 10-month suspension, Aerolíneas Argentinas resumed flights between Buenos Aires and Porto Alegre on March 5th.
These services had been interrupted due to the floods suffered by the Brazilian city last May. The airport returned to operation on October 21st, 2024 and international flights have been available since December 2024.
Aerolíneas Argentinas will be the only carrier serving this route, as it was also before the floods.
AEP – POA
POA – AEP
Starting May 5th, GOL Linhas Aéreas will commence flights to Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport in Buenos Aires (AEP/SABE) from Porto Alegre.
Cali, Aeromexico’s new destination in Colombia.
As we announced in our last Latin America report, Cali’s Alfonso Bonilla Aragón airport will enter Aeromexico’s network effective June, but at publication time the schedule was not confirmed.
The Mexican airline will offer a daily frequency on 181-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8s.
Daily · June 19th
Bogotá, Cartagena and Medellín are its current routes in Colombia, all of them from/to Mexico City.
The first flight between the Mexican capital and Cartagena, as you can see through our database, was on February 20th (AM 750/751).
Aeroregional, an Ecuadorian airline, restarted operations to Perú following almost two years.
On February 27th at 10:09 local time, Aeroregional’s first service from Quito arrived in the Peruvian capital. According to its website, the company will fly twice a week using Boeing 737-400 and Boeing 737-500 planes.
Thursday and Sunday
In addition, Aeroregional plans to begin operations between Quito and Punta Cana in April.
As of June, Arajet will commence services to Puerto Rico from Santo Domingo and Punta Cana, its two bases in the Dominican Republic, two and three times weekly, respectively.
The airline will operate with 186-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft under the following schedule:
Santo Domingo · June 4th
SDQ – SJU – SDQ
Punta Cana · June 6th
PUJ – SJU – PUJ
On March 6th at 15:08 local time, the first flight of Aero Transporte S.A., also known as ATSA, arrived in Atalaya (Perú) from Lima. The Peruvian airline returned to Atalaya after a five-year suspension, which occurred in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ATSA will be the only operator at Atalaya’s Gerardo Pérez Pinedo airport, in this case with services to/from the country’s capital. Based on its website, it will fly with 19-seat Beechcraft B1900s.
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
The airline has five aircraft in its fleet (2 B1900s, 1 Beech B200 and 2 Dash 8).
At 12:45 local time on February 21st, Avelo Airlines’ inaugural flight landed in Punta Cana. The airline will perform two scheduled routes from the US, both twice per week, on 189-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Windsor Locks · February 21st
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Raleigh-Durham · February 22nd
Wednesday and Saturday
Punta Cana is Avelo’s first destination in the Dominican Republic.
Guatemala City – Miami, avianca’s new route.
Flights will commence on May 10th and will be conducted with a daily frequency by Airbus A320neo airplanes with capacity for 180 passengers in single class.
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As announced in our U.S.-Canada report, the airline will add another new route to the United States in May.
El Vigía will return to Avior Airlines’ regular schedule.
The Venezuelan carrier will resume its services from Caracas as of April 7th, which will be provided on Boeing 737-400 aircraft for 144 passengers.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
On Sundays, it will depart Caracas at 16:00 local time and at 17:45 local time from El Vigía.
The Brazilian airline has incorporated its first aircraft this year.
On March 8th, the Embraer E195-E2, registration PS-ADB, arrived at Belo Horizonte’s Confins airport at 17:37 local time from Montevideo. This is the first E195-E2 added by Azul in 2025, and the 32nd in the fleet.
The aircraft was produced in São José dos Campos, Embraer’s main factory in Brazil. At least with Azul, all of its new Embraer E195-E2s fly the São José dos Campos – Montevideo (Uruguay) – Belo Horizonte (or another Brazilian city) route due to the certification flight prior to the start of operations.
Azul Linhas Aéreas has 208 planes in its fleet, including Airbus, ATR, Cessna and Embraer.
As for Azul Cargo, the cargo subsidiary of Azul Linhas Aéreas, retired its Boeing 737-400(F) following the entry into service of the Airbus A321-200(P2F).
In 2018, Azul added two Boeing 737(F)s, which were 20 and 21 years old at the time of incorporation, being PR-AJY and PR-AJZ their registrations. In accordance with our database, both Boeing 737-400 were withdrawn from Azul Cargo’s operation between late December 2024 and early March 2025.
The last Boeing 737-400(F) to be retired was the one registered PR-AJZ, which left Campinas on March 5th on a ferry flight to Lourdes (France) with stopovers in Recife and Espargos (Cape Verde).
Azul Cargo has two Airbus A321-200(P2F) in its fleet (PS-AJA and PS-AJB).
The Colombian airline will have a significant increase in frequencies between Bogotá and Medellín starting May 5th, which operates with 48-seat ATR 42-600 and 70-seat ATR 72-600 aircraft.
As per its website, Clic will boost from 28 weekly flights to 70, strengthening its operation on one of the main domestic routes in Colombia. Furthermore, the company serves to/from Medellín’s Olaya Herrera airport, located in the center of the city.
On the other hand, as part of its expansion, Clic plans to add two more ATRs to its fleet, expected to arrive in Colombia between April and May. Thus, the fleet will be composed of 21 aircraft, all of them ATR 42 or ATR 72.
Austin, Delta Air Lines’ new destination from Cancún.
The carrier will fly once daily on Airbus A320-200s with a capacity of 157 passengers, beginning December 20th.
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Delta will compete with American and Southwest on this route.
Feeling Air, an Argentine private flight company based at San Fernando airport in Buenos Aires, added a new Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX, which landed in the Argentine capital on February 14th.
The aircraft, registered LV-KLR and six months old at time of publication, departed Minneapolis St. Paul on January 27th, and had a long ferry flight to Argentina with stopovers in the United States, as well as several stops in the Caribbean, Brazil and Paraguay.
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12th February
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Local time each departure and arrival.
Effective April 14th, the carrier will launch a new route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, one of its bases in the Caribbean.
Thursday and Saturday
InterCaribbean will fly Embraer 120 aircraft for 30 passengers.
The low cost carrier keeps expanding in Argentina by announcing a new international route from Mendoza.
JetSMART Chile will operate the Santiago de Chile – Mendoza – Rio de Janeiro service and vice versa using 186-seat Airbus A320neo airplanes, twice a week.
Friday and Sunday
Currently, the airline serves four times weekly between Santiago and Mendoza with Airbus A320neo and Airbus A321neo.
Líneas Aéreas del Estado, a state-owned airline operated by the Argentine Air Force, will commence a new domestic route in Argentina as of April 8th.
Tuesday and Thursday
LADE will operate every two weeks, on 44-seat Embraer 140s.
It is possible that some flights may be conducted with Fokker 28 aircraft, which will be withdrawn from service in the near future.
LATAM Brazil will expand its flights between Sao Paulo and Bariloche starting June 23rd for the South American winter 2025.
Initially, as we published in our January Latin America report, the airline was scheduled to operate six services per week during the winter, but recently announced that it will offer a daily frequency on this route, due to an increase in demand.
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The three main Brazilian airlines, Azul, GOL and LATAM, will have flights between Brazil and Bariloche this winter.
Beginning April 3rd, Plus Ultra will boost from four to five weekly operations on the Madrid – Lima route, which it flies with 299-seat Airbus A330-200s.
Daily except Tuesday and Saturday
New flight on Thursdays.
Air Europa, Iberia, LATAM and Plus Ultra operate between the capitals of Spain and Perú, offering 31 services a week in total.
Servicio Aéreo a Territorios Nacionales inaugurated a new domestic route in Colombia on March 3rd, connecting Quibdó and Pizarro, both located in the Colombia’s Pacific Region.
The airline will operate twice-weekly by Twin Otter aircraft, configured for 19 passengers.
UIB – PZR
PZR – UIB
SATENA, a state-owned airline managed by the Colombian government, is about to celebrate another anniversary. April marks 63 years since its foundation.
Tucumán’s Benjamín Matienzo airport, in northern Argentina, received four cargo flights from Thailand in early March. Cargolux operated three of these services with Boeing 747-400(F), and Qatar Cargo used a Boeing 777F, all carrying the Moto GP logistics to the Termas de Río Hondo circuit in Argentina, which hosts the upcoming MotoGP™ World Championship race.
The city of Termas de Río Hondo, located 90 kilometers south of Tucumán, has a small airport and, therefore, does not operate Boeing 747s and Boeing 777s.
Schedule
March 4th · Boeing 747-4HAF(ER) LX-MCL
March 5th · Boeing 747-4EVF(ER) LX-JCV
Boeing 777-FDZ A7-BFI · March 6th
March 7th · Boeing 747-4HAF(ER) LX-MCL
Local time each departure and arrival.
On March 11th, the Brazilian aeronautical authority (ANAC Brasil) announced that it is suspending the operations of Voepass Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline operating within the country on ATR 42-600, ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircraft.
This suspension, as stated through a press release, is “due to the inability of Voepass to resolve the irregularities identified during the supervision carried out by the entity, as well as the violation of the conditions previously established for the continuity of the operation within the required safety standards.”
Voepass Linhas Aéreas is under a restructuring process following the accident on August 9th, 2024 in Vinhedo, when the ATR 72-500 with registration PS-VPB crashed while covering flight 2283 between Cascavel and Sao Paulo Guarulhos. During the last few months, the airline had to retire several aircraft due to lack of payment, which resulted in the cancellation of many routes in Brazil.
ANAC will keep Voepass operations suspended until the airline demonstrates that it can guarantee the level of safety required by current regulations.
The Mexican company will have a major expansion of domestic and international services starting in late March, for the Northern summer 2025.
Volaris (Mexico), Volaris Costa Rica and Volaris El Salvador will add new routes, which will operate by Airbus A319 and Airbus A320 planes:
Mexico
International routes, as reported by AeroRoutes
Aircraft incorporated by Latin American airlines
- Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras
| Aircraft | Airline | Registration | Ferry flight | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cessna C208 | Feeling Air | LV-KLR | STP-EVV-ABY-FLL-PLS-PUJ-SXM-GND-BVB-MAO-OPS-CGR-ASU-FDO | February 14th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | JetSMART | CC-AWW | SCL-AEP | February 20th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | JetSMART | CC-DIF | SCL-EZE | March 6th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | JetSMART | CC-DIC | SCL-EZE | March 7th |
| Embraer E195-E2 | Azul | PS-ABD | SJK-MVD-CNF | March 8th |
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Cover photo: Herison Riwu Kore – JetPhotos (Orlando International Airport – KMCO – USA)
