RICARIZA From Colombia, joined Apr 2005, 2355 posts, RR: 29 Posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1511 times:
West Colombia suspends operations for two weeks:
The article is in Spanish, but it says that besides its financial problems, West Caribbean also has some problems with some of its planes and need to take them into maintenance.
The airline is not taking any more reservations and it will refund any customer who ask for the money back, but Avianca, Satena and Aerorepublica will cover its routes in the meantime.
The article says that these are the routes:
BOG - ADZ - BOG
BOG - MED - BOG
BOG - EOH - BOG
BOG - PTY - BOG
ADZ - PVA - ADZ
The last one, ADZ - PVA - ADZ is the most critical because is the only mean to get from the tiny island by air, so it will immediately be covered by Avianca. AV will also take care of all the charter flights and P5 and Satena will take care of the other routes.
Question:Are these all the routes that West Caribbean currently has? I flew BOG - AXM - BOG a few months ago...
RCS763AV From Colombia, joined Jun 2004, 4279 posts, RR: 14 Reply 1, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1494 times:
West also has a bunch of regional routes from EOH, the were also operating BOG-MZL, CLO-ADZ, CTG-ADZ, BOG-CLO and CLO-MDE, MDE-PTY, BOG-SJO and they had the West Costa rica subsidiary but dont know the routes of that airline, also, West was not flying BOG-PTY and BOG-AXM was cancelled a few months back.
Legacy135 From Switzerland, joined May 2005, 1052 posts, RR: 29 Reply 6, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1438 times:
Quoting RICARIZA (Thread starter): ADZ - PVA - ADZ is the most critical because is the only mean to get from the tiny island by air, so it will immediately be covered by Avianca.
What aircraft will Avianca use on this route? Can they operate with the F50 at PVA or did they subcontract somebody else?
Thanks for information and kind regards
I flew 4 times with them and the service was pretty decent, I mean, nothing over the top, but they were punctual, planes in good (apparent) condition, very good rates and as Chiguire said, the new image looks very good.
I hope they can figure a way out and it will not be their end, but I am afraid it doesn't look good...
Quoting RCS763AV (Reply 1): and they had the West Costa rica subsidiary
Do you think it will affect West Costa Rica and West Aruba too?
I miss ACES, I am proud of AVIANCA & I am loyal to AMERICAN
Chiguire From Venezuela, joined Sep 2004, 2003 posts, RR: 19 Reply 10, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1329 times:
Quoting RICARIZA (Reply 9): That's a shame.. I don't think that WEST will survive this one...
No, I don't think so either.
After being grounded I have never seen an airline start-up again. VIASA, Sabena, Swissair.... once they are on the ground it's over.
SOUTHAMERICA From Colombia, joined Dec 2003, 2496 posts, RR: 15 Reply 11, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1288 times:
Yes, it's sad, but others will come and others will go, let's hope, for the sake of us passengers, that we remain at least with 2 decent airlines always.
The thing I hate the most about West's demise is that fares will undoubtlessly rise, especially on their former MDE-BOG route, and all the employees that will be on the street again.
Quoting Avianca (Reply 4): How is the serivce of West? Never took West
I flew with them a couple of times, and service was OK; in fact, it was much more than what I expected for the ticket price. Service and attention-wise they were pretty much on-pair with Avianca and AeroRepublica, the added value of these two companies is, however, the added frequencies on each route.
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