Volaris Costa Rica a new LCC has begun operations from San Jose in Costa Rica

The airline’s first flight on 30 November was on the 855-kilometre route to Guatemala City (GUA)

It will operate the route twice-daily with a single A320 it has wet-leased from parent company Volaris, and will face competition from Avianca (14 weekly flights) and Copa Airlines (10 weekly flights). In the 11 months to the end of November, Volaris itself has carried 13.5 million passengers (up 25.7% versus 2015) of which almost 2.7 million were on international services (up 27.0% versus 2015). The year to date load factor is up over four percentage points to 86%.

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