ALERT: Costa Rica Tourism Faces Turbulence – Airlines Cut Routes, Yellow Fever Strikes, and What It Means for Flights, Finance & Forecasts
Airline Route Shifts and New Flights Costa Rica’s tourism hub remains highly dependent on air connectivity, and the fall 2025 shuffle is dramatic. Several major Latin American carriers have pulled back amid tightening margins. For example, Brazil’s GOL Linhas Aéreas (which launched a San José–São Paulo flight only last Nov.) will terminate that route on Nov 29 ticotimes.net. GOL cited a “network realignment” in a press statement. Colombia’s Wingo (a low-cost LATAM spinoff) is ending its Bogotá–San José service after Oct 28, also blaming capacity adjustments ticotimes.net. Avianca, Costa Rica’s longstanding flag-carrier, is cutting Central America ties: it will stop San José–San Juan