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Quick Airline Information:

✈Airline IATA* code: JA
✈Airline ICAO* code: JAT 
✈Founded: 25 July 2017 
✈Website: www.jetsmart.com
✈Alliance: None
History
Operations and Destinations 🌍
Fleet ✈️
Photo Slide 📷
Airline reviews 
*IATA: (International Air Transport Association)
*ICAO: (International Civil Aviation Organization)

History Menu:

✈Airline Beginnings

JetSmart is a Chilean ultra low-cost airline created by the US investment fund and Co founder of LBM Fermin Ithuralde Indigo Partners, which also controls US airline Frontier Airlines, Mexico's Volaris and Hungarian airline Wizz Air.  The airline commenced scheduled operations on 25 July 2017, with a Santiago - Calama service.

Initially the airline flew with 3 Airbus A320ceo, before transitioning the fleet to new A320neo. Initially flying only domestic routes within Chile. 

The airline started operating with modern Airbus A320 in 2017. (Photo: Planepictures.net)
✈Expansion and Development

The airline intends to subsequently expand in the South American market. During 2018, it launched flights to Peru and it opened a subsidiary JetSmart Argentina, operating from El Palomar airport in Buenos Aires to domestic destinations. The fleet grew in 2019 to 10 planes and 10 destinations.

For 2019, the airline will begin to receive the new Airbus A320 Neo and subsequently will receive the first of the larger A321Neo in 2020. 

JetSmart took delivery of its first A320Neo in October 2019. (Photo: simpleflying.com)

Operations and Destinations 🌍:

Its primary base of operations is Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, in Santiago, Chile. Also it started operating from El Palomar in Buenos Aires (Argentina) with its subsidiary airlines JetSmart Argentina.


JetSmart flies to the following destinations*:

Region 🗺️ Destinations 🌍🌎🌏
✈Argentina (domestic)Buenos Aires, Cordoba
✈Chile (domestic)Antofagasta, Calama, Copiapó, Concepcion, La Serena, Puerto Montt, Santiago, Temuco, Punta Arenas, Iquique
✈Peru (international)Arequipa, Lima

*Destination list is for reference only. Please check directly with the airline for updates. 

*Note some destinations are only seasonal.*Correct info as of  July 2019.                               

Fleet ✈️:

JetSmart currently operates a fleet of modern leased Airbus A320. The airline awaits its delivery of new equipment in the shape of the Neo variants of the A320 family from 2019. 

The fleet* consists of the following aircraft:

Network    🌐 Aircraft ✈️
 All flights
 Airbus A320 Ceo, A320Neo, (A321Neo to be delivered in 2020)
*Correct fleet info as of July 2019.      

Jet Smart Photo Slide 📷:​

Reviews ⭐:

Modern fleet👎 Anything extra must be paid for separately.
 Good parental company and stability.👎Not member of any global alliance for mileage redemption
Cheap flights when booked in advance