Four New Airlines To Fly to
Costa Rica
Four new airlines have announced
their plans to offer services in
Costa Rica, while others like
Delta Airlines will be offering
more connections and more
flights.
Frontier Airlines, Air Caraibes,
Air Sunwing and Air China, will
all soon be offering service to
and from Costa Rica.
Frontier will begin service next
month with direct flights from
Denver. According to the
vice-minister of Transportes,
Viviana Martín, the airline will
be making a request for
operation permit this week.
The French airline Air Caraibes
has announced its first flight
to Costa Rica fro December 11
with flights from Martinique and
Guadalupe Island with direct
connection to Paris and the rest
of Europe.
Canadian Air Sunwing is the
third airline to apply to the
Aviación Civil for permission to
operate in Costa Rica, offering
charter, cargo and mail services
between Canada and Costa Rica.
The company has not yet said
when it will start operations.
Air China, though it has not
announced definite plans for
flights to Costa Rica, did say
it is studying the possibility.
In a press conference in Hong
Kong, the Chinese national
airline, said Costa Rica is an
option for flights to the
Central American region and the
Caribbean.
The renewed diplomatic relations
between the governments of Costa
Rica and the Republic of China
is the reason the airline is
considering adding flights to
Costa Rica, the airline said
during the press statement.
Martín and the minister of
Tourism, Carlos Ricardo
Benavides, added with the
announcement of Air China, more
asian airlines are considering
Costa Rica, but did not disclose
the names of the airlines,
preferring to wait until the
negotiations are complete.
In addition to the new airlines,
Richard Anderson, president of
Delta Airlines, announced plans
for expantion in Latin America.
As part of the expantion, Delta
wil be adding flights from New
York to San José and Liberia
beginning next February. Other
airlines now serving Costa Rica
have been rumoured to be
considering adding more flights
and more destinations.
Alvaro Conejo, of the Cámara de
Turismo (Toursim Chamber) said
that, in general, the added
competition should lower ticket
prices.
Earlier this year, the British
airline, First Choice Airways,
began operations between
London's Gatwick and Liberia,
becoming the first direct Tran
Atlantic flight to and from
Guancaste, and Air Comet began
operations between Madrid, Spain
and San José. |
