Low cost Sky Airline quiere volar a Ecuador

Hoy, 22 of January of 2018 it became públitz the to intendón de que la aerolínea low cost Sky Airline wants to fly to Ecuador from Santiago de Chile, within your expansion planón international with its new type of low-cost service, Quito and Guayaquil will be ableían be the destinations in the país of the company.

The Chancellorífrom Ecuador reportedó that conversations began with Sky once it showed its interestés to start regular low-cost flights between Chile and Ecuador. With the impulse of the políethics of Open Skies that initiatedó Ecuador and taking into account that Chile alsoén does not have these políairline ethics that seek liberalizationón of the procedureía and frequencies, is that this aerosolíChilean company becomes the first to show interestés to use these advantages that once both paísigning an Open Skies agreement will bring both nations.

Let us remember that currently, the úThe only direct flights between Chile and Ecuador are carried out by LATAM Airlines with its subsidiaries from both countries.íses with until 10 weekly flights on Airbus A319 and Airbus A320 aircraft in a flight of almost 6 hours with average fare costs from $500 dólares up.

Other alternatives to fly from Quito or  Guayaquil to Santiago de Chile is through the Lima HUBs, Panamá o Bogotá, so potential new Sky flights will beán a great alternative to improve connectivity between both paíyour brothers and generate a reductionón in ticket costs toéprisoners.

Without aún specify frequencies or the destination in Ecuador that could potentiallyístill be Quito, Guayaquil or both, metó that these negotiations began within the framework of the II Meetingón of Foreign Ministers at the CELAC-China Forum.

About Sky Airline

the airíChilean company was founded inñO 2002 for Jürgen Paulmann y rábeggedly convertedó in a great reference of aviationón Chilean with him 26% of the participationón of the market operating a fleet of Boeing 737-200 «pigs» back then.

With the passing of theños and with the positioning in the market and consumer, the airínea operó flights to vacation destinations preferred by Chileans and beganó its international growth, flying to Sao Paulo, route that was later suspended.

In the AñO 2015 the airídon't decideó make a radical change to your business model by adopting the low cost modality – low cost, what I allowedó reduce up to a 35% passenger costs in the market where it operates and has allowed Sky Airline to grow steadily in the market led by the large LATAM Airlines Chile. This model change also broughtén a new corporate image as we can see in the accompanying photoña is fasting.

Currently its fleet isá made by 15 Airbus aircraft of the Airbus A319 models with 13 avión is and Airbus A320 with 2 airplanes of this model. further, has an order 30 Airbus A320neo aircraft for renovationón total of your fleet.

The 20 destinations to which the airline currently fliesínea both in Chile and internationally from its main HUB at the Comodoro Arturo Merino Ben International AirportíSantiago's complexion are:

• FLORIANÓPOLIS
• RÍTHE JANUARY
• PUNTA DEL ESTE
• ARICA
• IQUIQUE
• squid
• ANTOFAGASTA
• COPIAPÓ
• THE SERENA
• SANTIAGO
• I CONCEIVEDÓN
• TEMUCO
• VALDIVIA
• OSORNO
• MONTT PORT
• BALMACEDA
• PUNTA ARENAS
• BUENOS AIRES
• MENDOZA
• CÓRDOBA
• LIMA
• MONTEVIDEO
• ROSARIO

For now the aerosol stageíline to fly to Ecuador isá only in negotiations and the operation request has not been formally presentedón international regular before the aviation authoritiesáuticas of Ecuador.

So that the airline flightsíwill be realized, The Open Skies agreement with Chile must first be signed, so the airline flightsínea podríwill occur at the end of this 2018 or at the beginning of 2019 depending on the implementationón and negotiations.

If the arrival of Sky Airline materializes, to beíto the fourth airílow cost line to operate in Ecuador together with JetBlue, Wingo and Spirit Airlines.

We will keep reporting.