Air Plus Now Making Flights to South America

Air Plus Comet, an airline owned by Spanish group Marsans, has officially begun flights to South America with a Madrid-Lima route. The first Air Plus jetliner landed at the Jorge Chavez International Airport of Lima with a human cargo of 250 passengers.

The new flight will come around twice a week to cater to passengers flying to and from Lima. Air Plus has announced it will use Boeing 747 aircraft in nightly flights for better convenience. The timetable allows business travelers to arrive in either destination first thing in the morning.

Once in Madrid, Peruvian trippers could take a relay flight to Paris, London, Zurich, Rome, Milan, Munich or any other European city covered by Spanair, another air company owned by the Marsans group.

Air Plus is planning to put up a special $599 roundtrip airfare that would allow passengers to carry twice as much baggage as they are permitted now: 64 kilos in two suitcases.

Since last September, another Spanish airline, Air Madrid, has been covering the Madrid-Lima route with a grand total of 4,000 travelers in three weekly flights.

Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism is aggressively seeking new airlines that can fly nonstop to Lima in an effort to make Peru a transit point in South America.