FlixBus has launched its first service in Peru, partnering with local operator Pominpro to connect Lima and Trujillo via Chimbote along the northern coastal corridor, the company announced on 25 September.
The launch makes Peru FlixBus’s 46th country of operation and its third market in South America after Brazil and Chile, and fourth in Latin America including Mexico. Pominpro, a Peruvian transport company owned by Grupo Polo, brings 18 years of experience in urban and private passenger transport in the country. The operator runs the new route under authorisation from Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, using its own buses and drivers trained to FlixBus standards.
The partnership follows FlixBus’s established asset-light model. Local operators manage fleets and day-to-day operations, while FlixBus provides sales channels including its app and website, driver support from its traffic control centre, incident response protocols, and centralised customer service.
Polo Pérez, president of Grupo Polo, said the company has years of experience moving people and understands what it means to do so responsibly, adding that entering the interprovincial sector alongside FlixBus lets it deliver the standard it wanted for passengers.
Peru’s bus market gives the entry scale. Citing national regulator SUTRAN, FlixBus said interprovincial road transport carried 96.4mn passengers in 2024, with 26.9mn of those journeys in the northern zone where the new route operates. Tourism adds further demand along the corridor, with destinations including Chan Chan and Huanchaco. The route joins a global FlixBus network spanning more than 8,700 destinations across 46 countries on five continents, which has carried more than 500mn passengers since launch.
André Schwämmlein, co-founder and CEO of Flix, called Peru a strategic market for the company’s Latin American expansion, citing its size, reliance on buses for intercity travel, and tourism demand, and said the company is bringing the same long-term model that has helped bus companies grow in Brazil, Chile and Mexico.
FlixBus said more connections are planned for coming months, operated by other local companies, with the aim of linking Peru’s main cities.