This Wednesday, March 1, a broad discussion was opened between the authorities regarding the Viva Air and Avianca integration case. After several hours of meeting, Sergio París, director of Civil Aeronautics told CM& that the “The instruction is to continue with the integration request process.”
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He also assured that still The country is in a crisis situation that will continue. From Aerocivil they hope that Avianca and Viva Air have filed, today, a document with alternatives to the situation.
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“These offers must benefit the competition, access to the El Dorado airport and maintain certain benefits for users.“Paris said in the interview.
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Along with this, he once again explained the reasons why the integration was rejected at first. “The denial of integration is because Viva’s crisis situation was not approved and because it demonstrated the competition market where control of the route had a high concentration of infrastructure“, he pointed out.
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The union has to come up with different rules of the game that will be studied by the Aerocivil. “If they are suitable, it will be decided,” Paris said. The center of the matter, according to the official, is in the air access to the El Dorado airport during premium hours.
The integration will only take place under the rules that protect the market and the user, París said. “TOhere is much that is not said“, said the official regarding the process. He assured that the Superintendence of Transportation is also doing its own investigations on the process.
Finally, he said that the Superintendence of Transport and Supersociedades will determine if the integration corresponds to a monopoly. In the event that they decide not to, Aerocivil would approve the integration.
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