Arajet, the Dominican low-price airline, officially inaugurated its operations from Punta Cana Airport (PUJ).
The airline will initially have 14 destinations linking to Punta Cana. Those include YYZ and YUL in Canada, as well as Sao Paulo, Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Cancun, Kingston, Jamaica, Santiago, Chile, Bogotá, Cartagena, and Medellín in Colombia, and Quito and Guayaquil in Ecuador.
An Arajet spokesperson told Open Jaw on 28OCT that there are four flights to and from YYZ: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, moving to every day of the week except Thursday on 18NOV, 2024. For Montreal, flights will be Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday. That changes to Monday to Saturday on 25NOV, 2024.
"For Arajet, it is a commitment to promote the tourist’s arrival to the country by offering them more opportunities to visit the Dominican Republic at the lowest market prices through our robust destinations network and the more than 200 combinations of connections that we currently offer," said Víctor Pacheco, Arajet CEO and founder who added that its main objective is to "turn the Dominican Republic into the new continent air hub."
Punta Cana Airport has become Arajet's third destination in the Dominican Republic. The airline flies to and from Toronto and Montreal; Bogotá, Cartagena, and Medellín in Colombia; Cancun and Mexico City in Mexico; Quito and Guayaquil in Ecuador; Kingston, Jamaica; Lima, Peru; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Santiago de Chile; and Buenos Aires in Argentina.
