SANTO DOMINGO, WILLEMSTAD - The Dominican airline Arajet offers cheap flights to Curacao. The low-cost airline is new on the market. A return ticket Santo Domingo – Curaçao temporarily costs $149. In addition to Curaçao, the company will also fly to Aruba, Sint Maarten and various countries in South America.
After taking delivery of its four Boeing 737 MAX 8, the Dominican Republic’s first low-cost carrier revealed that it will have 13 destinations in 9 countries in the initial phase, with frequencies of two to five flights per week and prices ranging from US$54 to US$140 per leg.
The first flight is scheduled for September 15 between Santo Domingo and Mexico City. In time, the airline will also fly to the US. Arajet is still waiting for the licenses to sell seats to North America.
It should be noted that, after more than a decade, the Dominican Republic will once again be connected to El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala, and Monterrey and Cancun will be two other new destinations for the Caribbean country.
The other destinations have at least one direct competitor. St. Maarten will be the most challenging since there are three regional companies competing: Air Century, Sky High and Winair.
In a second stage, the company will add Montreal (YUL) and Toronto (YYZ) in Canada; Kingston (KIN) in Jamaica; Quito (UIO) and Guayaquil (GYE) in Ecuador; and Medellin/Rionegro (MDE) and Bogota (BOG) in Colombia.
Arajet’s CEO Victor Pacheco, in the presence of his excellency the Dominican Republican’s Minister of Tourism, David Collado, stated the airline’s launch marks the rebirth of Dominican aviation, projecting to transporting over 7 million guests per year in approximately 5 years.
“We promised low fares and we are announcing our trade mark low fares never seen before in our country,” said Mr. Pacheco. “This is the first step in the process to build the first strategic connecting hub in the Caribbean that will foster the Americas connectivity at the lowest fares. Additionally, starting in September we are kicking-off our mission to convert Las Americas International Airport into a premier Latin-American Air Hub,” he added.
