The airline of Dominican origin Arajet made its first demonstration trip to Barranquilla, Colombia this Friday.
The information was offered by the company through its social networks where it assured that the landing at the Ernesto Cortissoz Airport in Barranquilla was successful.
For this one first flight, Arajet used its second Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft baptized with the name of new valley, as a strategy to raise, promote and create awareness about the importance of preserving the main protected areas from the country.
Arajet is a commercial airline with mixed Dominican and foreign investment that had its launch on March 15. This project seeks to promote an increase in direct traffic between Dominican Republic and the rest of America.
The airline has an exclusive fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 8, high-capacity and the most efficient in the world in terms of environmental material, which will allow savings in fuel, maintenance and operations costs, and transfer those savings to its customers.
The airline will start operations soon with flights to Central America and the Caribbean, and later this year to the United States, with the aim of “offering the lowest prices in the market and turning Santo Domingo into the Caribbean Hub to better connect the continent “.
During the launch event, the company had estimated that its operations would start in this month of May. The airline will have a fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. Two months ago, it ordered the acquisition of 20 units, specifically the high-capacity 737-8-200 model. It also said in a press release that it has options to buy an additional 15 737 Max jets that, along with existing lease agreements, could bring the airline’s new fuel-efficient fleet to the United States. 40 planes.
The company expects to transport about seven million passengers a yearwith a total of 43 air routes, of which 24 new routes are projected that are not currently served in the market.
Víctor Méndez Pacheco, president of the Board of Directors of Arajetestimated that the airline will generate in the next five years more than four thousand jobs directly and about 40 thousand indirectly, with an impact on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Dominican economy of more than 4,500 million dollars.