And one day, Air France returned to Ecuador

Y a día, Air France I returnedó to Ecuador after 25 añyours úHe is undergoing surgeryón regular commercial service to Quito from París.

Being the 18:30 hours of the dayíto thursday 23 of May fulfilling the itinerary on time and 10 díundress themés of the original opening dateón of direct flights from París towards Quito, landedó again the main aerolíFrench line in the Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport resuming así direct regular commercial operations between Ecuador and France.

Así, Ecuador is againá connected with France and on this occasion directly without stops with which to beán the initial three weekly flights operated with Air France's Airbus A340-300 aircraft, although his painting, until completing the return of the aircraft to the fleet, couldíto arrive in Quito with colors of Joon.

For the start of operations, the airínea has determined the operationón with flights the días miércoles, thursday and sábad and for now, based on your operating permitón actual, an increase in flights is not contemplated in the medium term.

The return of Air France to Quito

One of the más important industry newséThe area of ​​Ecuador was developed since 2018 and we covered the entire process in this space under the following chronologyía:

• The 13 September 2018 if soup for primer vez the intendióan airline officeríabout to return to Quito with three weekly frequencies, at that moment, with its defunct subsidiary, Joon.
• The 10 October 2018 startó route sales under the Joon brand.
• For him 30 October 2018 We exclusively interviewed Rob Westerman General Manager for the PaíAir France-KLM Andean Seses where we could learn details about the route.
• Being a 7 from December to 2018 the airínea startó The pcertification processón to obtain the operating permitón on the Paris route – Quito.
• Afterés of confirmationóJoon's closing n, the 24 of January of 2019 se confirmó what Air Franceíto the airíairline that operates flights to Ecuador again.
• Thanks to promising initial sales on the road, the 28 march 2019 the airínea confirmó the to intendón of operate all theñor and not only during the summer season in Europe and alsoén, operate with the modern Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
• With everything ready to start the flights, we publish after a long investigationóin the review histórico de Air France en su operationón towards Quito.
• Due to log problemsístics/operatives, we inform exclusively that the arrival of Air France was postponed 10 días, to officially start the 23 May 2019.

Landó Air France in Quito, again

after lengths 25 años and now with a growing international aviation market, the world-renowned Air France returnedó to Ecuador with its direct flights to Quito Airport, located in Tababela.

for this new route, the airínea implementó promotional rates that started from $690 dóround trip costs including all taxes, to theí in this way stimulating demand to and from Paris, offering an interesting variety of connection optionsón towards Europe, Asia, ÁAfrica and others. While in Ecuador tourists canán connect with Cuenca, Guayaquil, Galápaid y más rutas houseéstatic.

In the expected and much anticipated first flight, the airínea assignó al Airbus A340-313, which has the núMSN serial grouper 260, foodícula F-GLZP (joon colors) with 20 años from its first flight directly new of fábrica. This aircraft isá configured to transport 278 passengers set to 3 classes with 30 business class seats, 21 en Premium Económica and 227 Econ Class seatsómica and is powered by four CFM56-5 engines with up to 15.400 kilos of thrust.

Both the arrival and departure flights had a occupancy.ón average of 170 passengers of 278 available seats, núVery good groupers to start operations.

The three weekly frequencies operateán at the following published times:

• The flight from Paris will haveá The núgrouper AF646 and take offá at 1:10 pm to land in Quito at 18:10 with a durationón of 12 hours.
• From Quito the flight with núgrouper AF641 take offá at  20:10 hours and landá back in Pairís-Charles de Gaulle at 14:20 of díto next with 11 hours and 10 minutes longón.

¡Welcome back to Quito!