The Guayaquil airport closeá temporarily for four weekends in a row during the month of September 2019 for runway maintenance.
The temporary closure will take placeá from the sábad to monday (starting at 00:00 hours of the sábad until 08:00 Monday AM), starting from 31 August to Monday 23 September 2019, with the objective of carrying out maintenance and overhaul tasks on the landing strip of the José International Airporté Joaquín de Olmedo.
Closing times and dates
In what to beá one of the closures sálong periods of time from the second airport más important thing about Ecuador is to realizeá at the following times and días:
Time
From the 00:00 sábad up 08:00 Monday local time in Ecuador – Ecuador
dates
- From the 31 from August to 02 September 2019.
- From 07 from September to 09 September 2019.
- From 14 from September to 16 September 2019.
- From 21 from September to 23 September 2019.
NOTE
¿Whaté marketá with flights?
During each of the weekends of the closure it is estimated that más de 110 flights are canceled, diverted or reprogrammed, what to representá near 500 commercial flights canceled in total during the month of September, certainly, triggerá a significant operational complexity for airlinesíneat and above all, important effects on the thousands of passengers who will not be able toán fly during these daysías.
To reduce the impactón, the aerosolsíneas have begun to reschedule, relocate and cancel flights during these dates.
Those passengers who have previously purchased tickets that originate or destination to the Guayaquil airport during the indicated dates, dutyán contact your airline directlyídirections to learn about the protocols and protection optionsón and flight changes or returnón of the values of each ticket purchased if required.
For now, no additional measures have been contemplated, but the airports of Manta and Latacunga couldístill serve as alternatives if necessary.
Aerolíaffected neas
Nationals
- Tame
- Avianca Ecuador
- LATAM Ecuador
international
- Avianca
- LATAM Airlines
- Tame
- Copa Airlines
- Conviasa
- KLM
- American Airlines
- Spirit Airlines
- JetBlue
- Air Europa
- More Ultra
Load
Spaghettién cargo flights will be seenán affected:
- UPS
- DHL Ecuador
Buenas tardes:
These dates remain ?
I understand that they start on Fridays at 12:00 p.m., it is right ??
Yes, for now they remain. It starts at the time you indicate, which would be from 00:01 of saturdays.