The South American ultra-low-cost service Sky Airline has launched flights between Lima Worldwide Airport (LIM), Peru, and Miami Worldwide Airport (MIA), United States. It’s the newest regional ULCC to reach in Miami. Let’s examine additional.
Sky Peru lands in Miami
With a nod to Peruvian and South American vacationers to go to Little Havana, Sky Airline Peru has launched flights to Miami.
The airline launched this new route on Tuesday, June 7. MIA and airline officers celebrated the US enlargement with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that included SKY CEO José Ignacio Dougnac, Miami-Dade County Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Morales, and MIA Director and CEO Ralph Cutié.
At present, the airline is working 4 weekly flights. Sky is scheduled to extend its Lima-Miami service to 6 weekly flights on July 4 after which to every day service on August 1.
Sky Airline is using its Airbus A320neo plane with an all-economy 186-seat configuration to function this route.
José Ignacio Dougnac, Sky CEO, stated concerning the opening of this route,
“We efficiently inaugurated our first flight from Miami to Lima, which marks a big milestone in our worldwide enlargement plan and can enable us to attach primarily the USA with Peru, Chile, and different nations we fly to, at utterly reasonably priced costs and in essentially the most fashionable fleet of the continent.”
Sky Peru launched flights to Miami from Lima. Picture: Miami Worldwide Airport.
About Sky Airline Peru
In accordance with the airline’s web site, a round-trip ticket between Lima and Miami prices round US$330, together with taxes and charges.
Sky Airline Peru is a subsidiary of Chile-based Sky Airline. The ultra-low-cost service now competes instantly with American Airways and LATAM Airways Group in serving the Lima-Miami route.
The Peruvian department at present has a fleet composed of 4 plane. These are Airbus A320neo models. In the meantime, Sky Chile has 24 plane and an order for 14 extra models. Sky Chile has 21 Airbus A320neo and three A321neo. The airline expects to obtain 4 new Airbus A321neo and ten Airbus A321XLR (one of many two solely clients of the kind in Latin America; the opposite is Chile’s competitors JetSMART).
Relating to Sky Peru’s enlargement to Miami, Ralph Cutié, the airport’s Director and CEO, stated,
“Sky Peru’s enlargement is the newest instance of how worldwide journey at MIA is making a robust rebound to pre-pandemic ranges. We sit up for welcoming extra vacationers from Lima and to seeing Sky Peru have continued success with their first US route.”
American Airways is Miami’s principal operator to Latin America & the Caribbean. Picture: Getty Photographs.
Miami’s connectivity to Latin America?
Miami Worldwide Airport is likely one of the two main US gateways to the Latin American area (the opposite one is Dallas Fort Value).
In accordance with information by Cirium, Miami has 1,209 weekly flights to Latin America and the Caribbean. American Airways is the main operator on this phase, with 909 flights (a 75% market share).
Different airways that fly to and from Latin America are Aeromexico, Aerolíneas Argentinas, Avianca, Caribbean Airways, Copa Airways, Frontier, GOL, and extra.
In regard to the Miami-Lima route, practically 700,000 passengers traveled between each locations in 2019, making it the airport’s Eleventh-busiest worldwide market pre-pandemic.
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