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The Central American TACA Airline has announced that it will be dropping a $20 fuel surcharge from its tickets effective this week.  The airline decided to eliminate the charge due to the decrease in oil prices.

Starting this week, the extra ticket charge will be of $90 instead of the previous $110 charged by the airline.  An airline spokesperson announced that the decision was taken in order to benefit its loyal customers as well as offer the best service and price in the region.

The elimination of the $20 fuel surcharge for round trips will apply to all flights to and from Central America including Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Panama.

In addition, the airline has also announced a special rate for all its introductory flights within Central America by means of their new Embraer fleet.  The special rate for TACA’s introductory flights is of $199 (from Costa Rica) that includes taxes, surcharges as well as a double mileage point promotion.

The rate will apply for flights between Managua and San Jose; Guatemala and Managua as well as from San Jose to Managua.  The rate will apply for all tickets purchased before Friday November 14th, 2008.

TACA’s new Embraer fleet has a capacity of 96 passengers and has been divided in 88 seats for coach class and 8 for business class.  The airline has already included two of the 11 aircrafts purchased within their flight schedule and will be adding 9 more by 2009.

written by Carolyn Ramer \\ tags: flight to Central America, Flights to costa rica, TACA Airlines

The Spanish airline Iberia, has announced that it will be added one more weekly flight to Central America.  Due to the increasing demand of availability from Spain to Central America and vive versa, Iberia has included its 5th flight frequency to begin in January 2009.

Despite of the current economic crisis that the world is going through that has slightly affected the tourism industry, Iberia has had to take action before the increasing seat demand between both Continents.

The fifth flight frequency will operate every Sunday starting January 4th and will fly from Madrid to Guatemala and Panama.  Currently, Iberia services the route every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The announcement was made by Iberia Airlines’ representatives shortly after they included their fourth frequency in this same route.  Airline representatives have stated that the acceptance as well as demand of this service has leaded them to immediately include its 5th frequency.

The Central America Travel Market organization has diligently promoted the region as a multi-destination tourism market that is surely to attract the European traveler.  The region is marketed as a whole destination that will give the tourist the opportunity of a multi-cultural experience.

Iberia Airlines is the only airline that has serviced the route between Europe and Central America in an uninterrupted fashion since 1971.

written by Carolyn Ramer \\ tags: Central America Travel Market, flight to Central America, Iberia Airlines