Being 1 april 2019, landedó the first flight of LATAM Airlines between Santiago and Quito, route to operateá with 4 weekly frequencies.
Being the 08:55 hours and within itinerary, arrivedó al Quito Mariscal Sucre Airport what is the return of an operationón direct that thereísome have been suspendedñthe atreás.
as we indicate, is direct route already operó in the nineties, but at the time it was suspended and the entire operationón centralized between Ecuador and Chile víto Guayaquil, from that moment on it was possibleía operar sin ningún type of restrictionón. Spaghettién, between 2013 and 2014 I operated this routeó LATAM Ecuador doing the Guayaquil route – Santiago – Quito.
This new route operateá initially with 4 weekly flights, with the projectionón to become daily secún the permiso de operationón current that LATAM Airlines Chile has for this route.
This new flight will beá a complement to the 7 weekly frequencies operated by LATAM Ecuador between Guayaquil and Santiago, más the weekly frequency that also maintainsén LATAM Chile from the José Joaquín de Olmedo and Arturo Merino Beníquickly, to account for theí a total of 12 weekly frequencies between Ecuador and Chile.
Spaghettién, It is important to indicate that this is the second international route that the LATAM Airlines group operates from Quito and that it is added to the route to Lima with extensiveón towards Buenos Aires.
The arrival of LATAM Airlines to Quito
In advance and as is characterístatic in this space, We inform in detail each of the situations and details of the opening of a new route for Mariscal Sucre:
- The 8 august 2018 We inform that LATAM Airlines Chile habíhas requested the route between Santiago and Quito, máwith la potencial operationón of this path in cóI say shared with Qatas from Australia.
- For him 30 October 2018, LATAM Airlines carried outó the official announcement and launch of the direct route between Santiago and Quito, which to operateá with the modern Airbus A320Neo.
Latam Airlines landedó in Quito
How to get introducedón and launch, LATAM Airlines implementó on this route fares from $390 round trip taxes included, very attractive rate and lower than the average price on this route.
The inaugural flight of the return of direct flights between Santiago and Quito with núGrouper flight LAN548 between Arturo Merino Ben International Airportícomplex of Santiago and the Mariscal Sucre International Airport of Quito was carried out with one of the 5 Airbus A320Neo model airplanes that the airline hasínea at its base in Chile, it's avióThe mother does not haveícula CC-BHB.
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This aircraft has the numberúMSN serial grouper 7864 and just 1.4 años since its first test flight. arrivaló to the airínea directly from the manufacturer Airbus, is propelled by 2 PW1100G engines, with a capacity máxima for 174 passengers in a single class or for 164 in two classes as configured for operationón international, as was the case with this first flight.
The occupationón of the arrival flight from Santiago was 162 passengers and the return departure from Quito with 156 passengers, showing a very important and interesting occupationóinitial n.
By the arrival time of this flight, Passengers arriving from Chile will be able toán connect with Guayaquil, Galápayments and Cuenca, while those arriving from Ecuador will be ableán connect to más de 20 sun destinationséstatic and international airlineíchilean nea.
It's an operationón direct comes thanks to the improved performance of the Airbus A320Neo aircraft, which allows you to fly from the height of Quito without major limitations such as sí sucedíto previously.
El horario de operationón of these flights is the following:
- From Santiago the flight takes offá at 6:00 am and landá in Quito at 9:00 am. with a durationóapproximate n of 5 hours.
- For the return from Quito, the flight takes offá at 09:55 am and landá back in Santiago at 16:55 pm. after 5 hours approximately.
