Avianca Ecuador announces direct flight Quito and New York

Avianca Ecuador announcementó el próxxith start of direct flights between Quito and New York, route to beá operated by aircraft Airbus A320neo.

Photo by Diogo da ConceiçãO

Finally, and thenés of something más de 4 años, the Quito airport returná to be directly connected with New York, This being one of the routes más requested by travelers (including readers of this blog).

Hand in hand with Avianca Ecuador, these flights returnáto be part of the programmingóairport number, operating since the first week of June 2023.

Avianca flyá between Quito and New York, straight

In airplanes Airbus A320neo configured for 180 passengers in a single class (available chairs Premium Economy) the airídon't startá their flights the próximo 1 June this toñO, marked theí the recoveryón of a lost route in 2019.

Making availableón of the users más de 7.000 monthly seats, being alsoén, the única aerolínea that currently flies directly between both airports.

Frequencies

Initially, this route operateá with 5 weekly frequencies (Thursday, Friday, sábadass, sundays and tuesdays) and from 4 September flights will increaseán a 6 frequencies per week (one flight per day minus myércoles).

Schedules

Regarding the hours, this new route of Avianca Ecuador operateá as follows:

• Flight 2K7396 takes off from Quito at 17:00 hours and lands in New York at 00:10 hours with durationón of 6 hours and 10 minutes.
• Flight 2K7397 takes off from New York at 1:30 hours and lands back in Quito at 06:40 hours with durationón of 6 hours and 10 minutes.

As we previously indicated, these flights will beán operated with A320neo, which are expected to arrive in Ecuador for this and other routes in the following months, prior to the start of flights.

Price

The fare published and already on sale on the airline's websiteíne are the following:

• From $505 round trip included Taxes and fees.
  • Rate includes úonly artípersonal ass.

with these flights, Avianca Ecuador operateá (since September) 12 weekly frequencies between Guayaquil and Quito toward New York, being the main airlineíne in núgroup of operating frequencies towards the «Big Apple».

Flights between Quito and New York return

Direct flights between Quito and New York first started the 1 march 2017 by Tame EP, at that moment covering the route with his Airbus A330 HC-COH. Subsequently, after low profitability due to high operating costs and within a restructuring processóinternal n of the aerolístate line, what time laterés to beíthe liquidated, Tame dejó to fly between both cities 31 of January of 2019.

This connectionón is one of the routes toéreas más popular and requested among Américh from the North and South. The distance between both cities is approximately 2.500 miles náUticas, which means a trip around 7 hours in direct flight, that are now resumed thanks to the initiative of Avianca with its Ecuadorian subsidiary.