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Since the beginning of intermittent traffic on the road linking Bogotá to Villavicencio, due to the instability of the mountain located at km 58 of the highway, the price of plane tickets is 237 000 pesos per trip, on average by Avianca Holdings. and the EasyFly airline, the first with four scheduled daily flights and the second with the same number of frequencies activated only by contingency.
Felipe Gómez, director of institutional relations at Avianca Holdings, said the company was the only one to maintain two daily flights between Bogotá and the capital Meta when the road was open, due to intermittent traffic in the city. the last road. Weeks, between May 24 and June, the average trip was 275,000 pesos.The executive explained that, in the case of this company, only 5% of the tickets had prices above 500,000 pesos, which corresponds to the routes purchased with little anticipation, for example overnight. .
"The prices of the cheapest Avianca tickets are at the same level as those of a door-to-door taxi between Villavicencio and Bogotá," said the executive, noting that the door-to-door fare could reach 200 000 pesos.
In fact, EL TIEMPO consulted two people who provide the service in a van and pointed out that one of the alternative routes allowed, namely the Transversal del Sisga, allows to connect via Barranca de Upía to Villavicencio. 150,000 pesos.In other words, if a person wants to travel alone, they must take three tickets, or 450,000 pesos per trip.
Other rates
For its part, the company EasyFly said that since the reserve began to provide service with two daily flights and that the closure of the road will result in up to five daily flights, with rates between 175,000 and 389 000 pesos per way.
According to Isaac Herrera, Director of Products and Sales at Easyfly, since May, the year of the establishment of the "air bridge" between Bogotá and Villavicencio, they have mobilized some 6,000 pbadengers.
For its part, Felipe Gómez, of Avianca Holdings, explains that the demand for this route is very sensitive to the conditions of opening and closing of the road. It must therefore be planned with a certain degree of certainty as to the sale of the tickets, so that the planes do not remain finally unoccupied.
The executive considered it appropriate that other airlines could be involved in the emergency plan to increase the supply. In this sense, Avianca Holdings has met with the authorities of Meta in order to have a supplier providing on-shore services that require a jet plane, able to get to Villavicencio, but which today does not have this pbadenger volume does not justify sending an airplane of these dimensions.
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