Considering volaris is going to have a lot of aircraft with engine related work out of commission this year, I would not be surprised to see them quickly cut underperforming routes like SAL ONT Totally agree. Noticed some loads as small as 40 with Volaris El Salvador while AV had a load of 110-140 ...
Jump to postJust wanted to give the heads up, that Volaris El Salvador is not offering any flights from SAL-ONT after JAN 18 2024. This leaves AV as the sole airline serving the SAL-ONT sector. Seeing the loads from the CBP pages, they were bad compared to AV's whose faired far better at ONT.
Jump to postnine4nine wrote:Add a small red cheat line along the upper edge of the green and bring back the retro black anti glare on the nose section and she’ll look bad ass.
Living nearby, I"ll be there on day one when they open the exhibit.
Jump to postAlso want to add that on the RT JFK-SAL last week, the seats on Avianca actually were not bad? I was in economy and the seats don't recline but it felt like they werent straight up at 90 degrees. There was a slight natural incline and I never once felt uncomfy. I even slept, alot! Had a similar exp...
Jump to postSeems AV heard loud and clear the dragging they got for cutting their Business class for the Americas. I still remember last November when I flew their business class SAL-ONT (LA Area) and the Flight attendants told us in December we would be charged for food and drinks let's say the reaction of the...
Jump to postChecking Avianca's website, it seems that Avianca El Salvador is testing out their Wamos wet lease A332 on one of the LAX-SAL flights for the summer. Specifically, flight AV523 has been upgauged from A320Neo to A330. Seems it's being used on Tues, Thurs, and Sat. Also, for their ONT-SAL flight for J...
Jump to postSeems that Volaris El Salvador is going to be the second airline after Avianca to fly to ONT from SAL starting July 1st. SAL - ONT 3 days a week. Mo, Thrs, Sat 16:52 - 21:11 ONT- SAL 3 days a week, Mo, Thrs, Sat 22:51 -:04:48 This travel agency in El Salvador posted on its Facebook page the route in...
Jump to postSeems that Volaris El Salvador is going to be the second airline after Avianca to fly to ONT from SAL starting July 1st. SAL - ONT 3 days a week. Mo, Thrs, Sat 16:52 - 21:11 ONT- SAL 3 days a week, Mo, Thrs, Sat 22:51 -:04:48 This travel agency in El Salvador posted on its Facebook page the route in...
Jump to postAV is competing with Volaris which offers the same service. I didn't get this statement clearly. For the case of San Salvador, N3 Volaris El Salvador is offering some limited routes where AV used to fly at this time: New York JFK, Washington and Los Angeles. N3 had announced Ontario and Houston for...
Jump to postFor the past couple of months Avianca has been facing a firestorm of negative media coverage in the Spanish language media and an outpouring on social media of customer service complaints, which has been only increasing. The airline has faced growing outrage from passengers regarding the eliminati...
Jump to postNot sure this (bad) livery is to be applied fleet wide, Avianca has a 321neo to be delivered with the usual tail design. https://twitter.com/Tobias_Gudat/status/1579855399637114883?t=baN6JlGKbz8vo4fK89S3Sw&s=19 The one discussed in this topic has NO link to the eagle logo without the orange and...
Jump to postJust checked and this aircraft is already back in service. Yea, I'm not so hot with this livery refresh.
Jump to postThis aircraft was still in the older red Avianca livery. So it was due for a paint. The engines are still covered, I imagine they are still working on it.. I hope at least. Would be a shame. Did/do they really still have aircraft in the old colors flying? The switch was years ago! Yup. Avianca take...
Jump to postThey have planned to retire the A321 and the A320 with IAE engines, which are mainly aircraft based in SAL. Some of the Colombia based A320 fleet with CFM engines has already and will be transferred to SAL, with Colombia fleet getting the ex-Batik A320’s and new deliveries from Airbus. Some of the ...
Jump to postGreat to see China Airlines buy 787-9 for "medium range" for their A330-300 replacement. AS Qantas has shown us their 787-9 fly 17 hours nonstop. Even though China Air has 77W & A359's where are they going with these 787-9 ? Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo are great "medium haul&...
Jump to postDL feeling the pressure now to place their own order. I think they’ll be doing the wait and see approach like they did with the MAX. I’ll be surprised if they jumped on the bandwagon. Though I’ll love to see them flying the Overture. DL is just waiting for the mythical new engine to be built so the...
Jump to postdampfnudel wrote:DL feeling the pressure now to place their own order.
***GASP*** Another major US carrier is interested in the future of commercial aviation and what can be accomplished! I know most of airliners.net would rather see the “737 Super Max,” the “A320 Newer New Engine Option,” or the “777 XPlus” but I think it’s good that airlines are willing to see where...
Jump to postSomeone mentioned that AV was retiring their A319's. I follow an AV pilot on instagram and posted some photos of the final A321 that he flew before being returned to the lessor. Someone asked him if the A319s would suffer the same fate, and he said no. There are no plans to retire them at the momen...
Jump to postSomeone mentioned that AV was retiring their A319's. I follow an AV pilot on instagram and posted some photos of the final A321 that he flew before being returned to the lessor. Someone asked him if the A319s would suffer the same fate, and he said no. There are no plans to retire them at the moment...
Jump to postIn a muted announcement, Avianca has announced that they will no longer have a business class cabin on non-European routes effective October 1st. All routes throughout the Americas, including all routes to the United States, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Perú, El Salvador, and other countries will be ...
Jump to postGood they ditched idea of SWF and ONT for JFK and LAX instead. When will the London flights commence? The question is if SWF and ONT was a backup or decoy? It says "More routes coming soon" on their website https://flynorse.com/assets/img/static/routes-spring.png Someone on the FB page as...
Jump to postONT just posted their August metrics including Avianca's. Take a look.
https://www.flyontario.com/sites/defaul ... g_2021.pdf
Was looking over Avianca's flight schedule for the end of the year, and their upgauging their SAL-ONT route with an A320 and going from 3x a week to 6x a week starting in Dec 17 and ending in Mid January, going back to 3x a week.
Jump to postI'd make an arithmetic exercise, regarding the performance for AV SAL-ONT 3x weekly with the 120-seater Airbus 319. AV SAL-ONT First flight: July 01, 2021. Passengers transported in July 2021: 2755 Monthly frequencies; both ways: 3*4*2= 24 flights Average of passengers: 2755/24 = 115 Estimated load...
Jump to postONT just posted their monthly stats for July for each airline including AV's.
https://www.flyontario.com/sites/defaul ... l_2021.pdf
As far as I know, the community from Guatemala and El Salvador in L.A. is huge compared to the other Central American countries. The existing AV SAL-LAX 21x weekly justifies the launch of AV SAL-ONT 3x weekly. Perhaps even SNA could support AV to SAL, however, AV A319 (A318?) might not be able to t...
Jump to postSpeaking about Avianca Cantral America, the first flight on AV SAL-ONT 3x weekly began on July 01st, on board Airbus 319 and registered as N522TA. The plane is featuring the full livery of Star Alliance as shown below: 5931247 I've flown this route twice already and to be frank, I was more than ple...
Jump to postMy home airport is ONT, though to be frank I've never flown from there since there are no flights offered to the destinations I'm looking for. However, once ONT cut itself from LAX, they've tried to bring in more destinations some successful while other failing either due to schedule, fare pricing, ...
Jump to postSeeing the diagrams this looks like a water down version of what the original MEX replacement was going to look like, though modified for St Lucia. Then, I just think why did they even bother canceling the project in the first place.
Jump to postI'm wondering if there is enough ticket counter space for the addition of AV and HA HA is going to T4 while AV at T2. In the case of AV, I agree where are they putting the ticket counter unless either they move JetBlue to T4 or they share the same space with United like Delta did with Aeromexico wh...
Jump to postThey're starting their ONT-HNL flights with HA in a month using the A321. I do hope it works out for them.
Looking foward to CI coming back once the pandemic dies down, and as soon as AV starts adding their summer deals book a ONT-SAL flight. (Live 20 minutes from ONT).
Before COVID hit the US, Frontier was going to start ONT-SAL and GUA-SAL You meant F9 ONT-GUA. Frontier indeed planned some routes touching Central America before the Covid-19 crisis that never came true: ONT-SAL, ONT-GUA, MIA-GUA, MIA-SAL and BWI-SAL. On the other hand, AV SAL-LAX is 3x daily in a...
Jump to postGot to see that ONT Airport made an announcement on its Facebook page that AV will operate thrice weekly SAL-ONT flights early July. https://www.flyontario.com/press/ont-expands-international-destinations-it-welcomes-new-nonstop-service-san-salvador-beginning Would SNA have made more sense for a SA...
Jump to postGot to see that ONT Airport made an announcement on its Facebook page that AV will operate thrice weekly SAL-ONT flights early July. https://www.flyontario.com/press/ont-expands-international-destinations-it-welcomes-new-nonstop-service-san-salvador-beginning Would SNA have made more sense for a SA...
Jump to postGlad to see ONT in the mix of routes. At the beginning many poopoo CI even attempting to starts flight there, but after them making ONT work before Covid, perhaps the internal numbers CI saw was more than enough for Starlux to consider start flights to ONT.
Jump to postDL LAX-SAL route is coming back online after pulling out last summer(2019).
*DL LAX-SAL DEC 0>0.4[0] JAN 0>1.0[0] FEB 0>1.0[0] MAR 0>1.0[0] APR 0>1.0[0] MAY 0>1.0[0] JUN 0>1.0[0
*DL LAX-SAL DEC 0>0.4[0] JAN 0>1.0[0] FEB 0>1.0[0] MAR 0>1.0[0] APR 0>1.0[0] MAY 0>1.0[0] JUN 0>1.0[0 Glad to see DL after pulling out last summer (2019), they've quickly come back since many in the Salvadoran community in the LA area weren't keen with Avianca or Q6 since their service is lackluster...
Jump to postSurprised to see UA trying LAX- SAL again after they pulled out more than a decade ago. Could this be due to their joint venture with Avianca?
Jump to postI think I can kiss goodbye my $1500 that I spent last December on txts to SAL for this upcoming summer.
Jump to postVia Twitter, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has mentioned effective at midnight, SAL will shut down for 15 days. Will only accept cargo. Depending how the state of the pandemic is in, they'll assess if it's prudent to reopen.
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/ ... 22529?s=19
SAL is shutting down for 15 days. Will only accept cargo and depending the state of the pandemic, they'll decide when to reopen.
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/ ... 22529?s=19
For those trashing the poster with condescending posts, give them a break. Their ideas are aloof, but not merit what I'm reading.
For ONT itself, at the moment they're finding its footing and only time will show what will occur.
Never mind the windows, what is interesting about this is they talk about it as a narrow body replacement. All blended wing ideas that I've seen so far have been very big planes. I didn't know a blended design could work in small sizes? Also, this is the problem with Boeing's NSA - some really inno...
Jump to postInteresting to see they've been secretive about its test flights. Who knows if it's viable though it would be lovely if this is where Airbus is heading now to compete with Boeing and, finally push Boeing to innovate at the same time.
Jump to postContinuation from the 2019 Thread
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BWI-SAL nonstop?? That is out of left field. MIA-SDQ, SAL, GUA all bookable Largest Salvadorian community in the Eastern U.S. is in the DC area. ....but mainly in Northern Virginia not Maryland. It's not that far so they will get some traffic but AV from IAD will be a tough competitor. Being a memb...
Jump to posttwaconnie wrote:I guess it's to soon for a blended wing design.
LAX is a nightmare for most people especially for those who live eastern parts of LA county and the IE. Those people will really appreciate more options from their preferred airport which is ONT. it’s about time that LA finally gets a real secondary international airport. I agree. The funny thing i...
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