{"id":292237,"date":"2026-06-01T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292237\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:08:08","slug":"avianca-expands-flights-for-world-cup-as-soccer-tournament-gears-up-in-miami-15-other-cities-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292237\/","title":{"rendered":"Avianca expands flights for World Cup as soccer tournament gears up in Miami, 15 other cities \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avianca, the national airline of Colombia, is adding more service in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to coincide with the World Cup as the long-awaited soccer tournament approaches its initial matches this month, including in the host city of Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The airline announced Monday it will tack on 1,800 extra seats to routes connecting Bogot\u00e1 with Miami, Mexico City and Dallas, as well as Quito, Ecuador, with New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian team is scheduled to make an appearance on June 27 versus Portugal at the Hard Rock Stadium in northern Miami-Dade County.<\/p>\n<p>Avianca previously announced it would operate 3,000 flights with approximately 600,000 seats to and from the tournament\u2019s host cities.<\/p>\n<p>Avianca offers more than 80 destinations in 25 countries through 155 routes. The airline is offering nonstop service to 10 of the tournament\u2019s 16 host cities: Miami, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, and Houston; Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico; and Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Although Avianca points to Miami International Airport as its prime World Cup landing spot for South Florida, the airline also serves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/05\/12\/after-spirit-departs-avianca-adds-flights-from-fort-lauderdale-and-miami-to-colombia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.<\/a> A number of Broward County hotels are located within shorter distances from the World Cup venue than hotels located south of the Miami-Dade County line.<\/p>\n<p>The airline is now selling tickets for daily nonstop flights between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International and Barranquilla and Cali. Those new services start July 15.<\/p>\n<p>Seats may be purchased through avianca.com, the airline\u2019s mobile app, physical points of sale and travel agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avianca, the national airline of Colombia, is adding more service in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to coincide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[506,558,28,225,227,226,123,373,115,2062,109,110,1798,24215],"class_list":["post-292237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-broward-county","tag-business","tag-florida","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-news","tag-soccer","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-transportation","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}