the airíne española More Ultra already flies to Quito and Guayaquil from the city of Madrid, route to operateá initially with three weekly frequencies.
In a fríand onñAna in Quito at 05:47 am, arrivedó al Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport the first regular flight of the airlineínea Plus Ultra from Madrid Barajar International Airport, opening likeí its operations in Ecuador as a third partyís in Latinamérich to which it operates and including Quito and Guayaquil there are now four cities to which it flies.
Poco más de 1 hour laterés having landed in the capital of Ecuadorians, the flight continuedó his way to the José International Airporté Joaquín de Olmedo from the city of Guayaquil, completing theí his first dayíof operations in Ecuador and being the second airlineíne españwave in offering the triangulationón Madrid – Quito – Guayaquil along with Air Europa.
Initially, the airínea operateá three weekly frequenciesías miércoles, Fridays and Sundays and for these Plus Ultra flights useá Airbus A340-300 model aircraft, of which it has a total of 4 aircraft, with potential growth of 3 additional aircraft, but from the Airbus A340-600 model up to 2020.
The arrival of Plus Ultra in Quito and Guayaquil
The chronologyíThe arrival of Plus is quite extensive and we covered it exclusively at each stage in this space dedicated to aviation.ón, What úthe only specialized Ecuadorian media:
- Everything startedó the 28 of January of 2018 when in Spainñhe metó of the to intendón, of the then unknown Aerolíne española, to get frequencies to fly to Ecuador.
- A few weeks laterés, the 5 march 2018 se reveló What was Aerosol?ínea More Ultra than solicitó the frequencies, which were approved by Spainña.
- The 21 of January of 2019, añor undressés of initiated the trámites to fly to Ecuador, the airíI make it officialó the start of operations to Ecuador for July of that same yearñO.
- For him 27 of January of 2019 Plus Ultra startedó the sale of tickets to Quito and Guayaquil.
- The 6 march 2019 the airínea startó the trálegal issues before the aero authorityáutica of Ecuador to be able to start flights to the país.
- Finally, the 7 May 2019 the airínea obtained the permiso de operationón to fly from Spainña towards Ecuador and everything was ready for his arrival to the país.
Landó Plus Ultra in Quito and Guayaquil
Ecuador continues to grow in its tráI'm theéreo, es again attractive for Aerolídenies and this is shown by the año histórich that he has been 2019 for aviationón international in the país, although the aviationón judgementéstica remains a pending issue. I never spokeíWe have been as connected to the world as we are today.
Plus Ultra is an aerosolícompany that operates under a traditional or legacy model, but for this new route it has launched an aggressive campaignñto prices that have been found on their websites from just $495 dólares round trip with all taxes and with 3 luggage in the hold at no extra cost, which has allowed him to sell más de 12.000 tickets so far.
At this start of operations, the airínea assignó the más new avión incorporated into your fleet, el Airbus A340-313X matrícula EC-NBU, núMSN serial grouper 459, which has 17 añyou since your first flight (operó first for Iberia and Philippine Airlines), is propelled by 4 CFMI CFM56-5C4 engines and has a capacity to 303 passengers in two classes (18 in business and 285 in Económica).
On this first flight, the occupationón of the flight was 279 passengers from Madrid to Quito, of which 106 They continued to Guayaquil. for the return flight, countó with an occupationón of 184 passengers. The flight as usual was received and dismissed by the traditional water arch.
The schedules published for the three weekly frequencies are as follows:
- Flight PU601 takes off from Madrid at 01:05 am and lands in Quito's Mariscal Sucre at 05:35 am behind 11 hours and 30 direct flight minutes.
- Keeping the núflight grouper PU601, takes off from Quito at 07:35 am and lands in Guayaquil at 08:30 am behind 55 flight minutes.
- On the way back to Madrid, flight PU602 takes off from Guayaquil at 10:30 am and lands back at its base in Madrid at 04:50 am, with a durationóflight number 11 hours and 20 minutes.
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