Viva Air will receive seven of the 50 Airbus A320s from your order.

After investing $ 5.2 billion in the purchase of 50 Airbus A320 reference aircraft in order to increase its operational capacity until 2023, the group of low-cost airlines Viva Air, which makes part of the Irish company Irelandia Aviation, began receiving the first seven units of your order.

According to Felix Antelo, chairman of the company's CEO, there would be 15 units of the A320ceo model and 35 of the A320neo reference. The executive added that Viva Air's base of operations is Colombia and Peru, markets it will focus on in 2019, and then conquer a third country in the region by 2020.

The announcement was made by the executive this Thursday, when Viva presented her pink plane as a symbol of breast cancer prevention.

Antelo said Viva Air operates 32 lines in Colombia and Peru with a fleet of 19 aircraft and 800 employees. In addition, the group has achieved an occupancy rate of more than 80% this year, a figure that will enable it to conclude the year 2018 with the mobilization of nearly four million passengers in Colombia and 900 , 00 in Peru.

"Our low-price model has definitely taken root at the consumer's, at the customer's, these are aggressive rates because of the low costs we have," said Antelo.

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