Government of Ecuador seeks passenger flights with Qatar Airways

It was made púwar that he Government of Ecuador seeks passenger flights with Qatar Airways directly.

The current Ecuadorian ambassador in Qatar, Ivonne Baki, reveló días atrás that Ecuador is seeking the start of direct flights between both nations, but beíto something máIt's serious that the potential flights between Ecuador and Russia.

In order to promote tourist exchangeístic, cultural and commercial, the two nations will meetístill in advanced negotiations and to tell the ambassador, just missingíto the order of Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Zani for the flights to start.

A few weeks agoás, a large delegationón de is byeís, including the emir, visitó Ecuador and in these meetings and series of agreements signed, the study of a passenger routeívery much of the interés of the aerolíflag line Qatarí.

InteréI know what to beípromoted by the same Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador, from which to beígenerating the informationón stateíaesthetics and market required for a potential route.

It should be noted that Qatar Airways already has an operationón regular in the Quito airport with cargo flights and where it operates from 16 December with up to 5 weekly flights from Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires, to later fly to Miami back to Doha.

¿A direct flight to Ecuador is possible – Doha?

If we speak by distance and autonomyía, it is entirely possible that there is a direct flight, but couldíto have limitationsún the airport of departure from Ecuador.

Between Guayaquil, as an example airport and Doha there are 8,847 what would be equivalentíto some 17 hours with 20 minutes, what will returníto one of the flights sálong s in the world.

Qatar Airways long-haul fleet isá made up of the following aircraft:

• Airbus A330-200
• Airbus A330-300
• Airbis A340-600
• Airbus A350-900
• Airbus A350-1000
• Airbus A380
• Boeing 777-200LR
• Boeing 777-300ER
• Boeing 787-8

Of all these planes, those who caníto operate the route are úonly Boeings 787 by having an autonomyíto of 9.400 miles náUticas.

Now, a direct flight commercially speaking, not to beía feasible due to demand issues between both países, at least until demand grows and the route matures.

As we talked at the beginning, the flight sí can be direct, but will haveíto some limitations if for example, takes off back to Doha from Quito, That is why a scale isíto úonly alternative.

Qatar Airways isá growing in Latinérica, where it already operates with flights to Sao Paulo that extend to Buenos Aires with 2 flight hours.

With this, couldíwe love to think that the aerosolínea podríto plan a flight to, for example Venezuela O Panamá to extend to Ecuador, así there will not beíto restrictions both going and returning and alsoén, feedíto the route with tráfics of the 3 paíyou know how to connectían.

¿Becauseé Venezuela or Panamaá? To be able to move tráI stand between these 3 paípotential ses países, Bilateral agreements between participating nations must allow for trade rights.áfic of fifth and sixth freedoms of the air, opposite case, the airínea will not be ableíto sell the Ecuador section – Panamá, what to limitíto profitability and removeíto the attraction to the route.

That tooéIt won't be possibleíto give with Colombia or Perú, what caníto be very interesting as a route, but the autonomyía of the aircraft potentially assigned to this route defineíto the markets to exploit.

Potential

Qatar is part of oneworld Alliance, what to allowíto connect passengers with Sunday flightsésticos of LATAM Ecuador and its network of international flights that alsoén the aerolínea operates from Ecuador.

On issues of tráfico actual, there is very little data, but in the 2017, only 82 tourists came from this littleñof wallís.

The potential to attract más travelers from the Middle East is important thanks to the large hub that Qatar Airways operates in Doha from where it connects to the whole world and especially Asia.

This potential route couldíto be fed from all over South Américh with connections to Ecuador and vice versa.

let's wait and see.