Avianca will emerge with new pillars and more seats

The Avianca airline will develop a comprehensive plan that includes from the simplification of its operations to the incorporation of more seats, although it will not expand the fleet to get out of the financial crisis in which it is mired

Avianca Holdings has denied that the company is bankrupt or insolvent, once a video was published in which the president of the board of directors, Roberto Kriete, said in a meeting with employees that the airline was broken ', an expression that company sources stand out as' unfortunate'.

Anko van der Werff, president of Avianca, has just declared that 'we do not want to enter Chapter 11 (bankruptcy law), obviously the negotiations we have focused on what they are looking for is not having to ask for help from the courts, not having to ask for help from regulators, and simply reach agreements that (…) allow us to pay everyone everything we owe. '

For Van der Werff, the airline, which directly serves 76 destinations in 27 countries in America and Europe with a fleet of 170 aircraft, launched a transformation plan that seeks to optimize resources with the divestment of non-strategic assets, simplification of its fleet to improve profitability and better customer positioning.

It will try to increase the number of seats, but without increasing its number of aircraft: ‘the only way to grow is to put more seats on the airplanes, it does not mean less space, the new seats are thinner, said van der Werff.

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