LATAM Peru seeks more flights in Ecuador

the subsidiary LATAM Perú startó the trásubmit to the aeron authorityáutica in Ecuador in search of meás flights to Quito and Guayaquil, with extensión until Miami.

Recently, the Peruvian subsidiary of LATAM Group startó a trámeets before the Directorateón General of Aviationón Civil with the objective of including a new route to its current operating permit.ón. Let us remember at this point that LATAM Perú already operates in Ecuador toward Quito and Guayaquil, both from their hub in the Jorge Ch Airportáturn that serves the city of Lima.

It should be noted that both LATAM Ecuador and LATAM Perú Eastán in charge of the frequencies between our paíyes and Perú, but the Peruvian subsidiary is the largest operator on these flights at the moment.

LATAM Perú request más flights to Ecuador

With date 20 November 2023, víto your legal representative in Ecuador, the airínea LATAM Perú solicitó se modifique su Permiso de Operationón for performanceón of the transport service toéreo, público, international, regular, passenger cargo and mail, in combined form renewed and modified by the National Aviation Councilón Civil with Agreement No. 023/2021 from 28 October 2021, in order to include the following route:

• LIMA – QUITO and/or GUAYAQUIL – MIAMI and VV, up to seven weekly frequencies with rights of up to fifth freedoms.

As we can see, the airínea seeks to include among its possible routes to our countryís, the possibility of extending your flights until Miami with rights of up to fifth freedoms of the air, máIt's a potential increase tooén of frequencies towards Quito and / or Guayaquil.

But, ¿thaté This request implies? First we must indicate, as always, that a route request, as we have seen in many other cases, It does not mean that you will have surgery, but yesí allows us to know the plans of the airlineínea. Spaghettién, couldíWe want to speculate the following alternatives to this request:

• Faced with contingencies in the operationón from LATAM Ecuador, the sister subsidiary from Peruú couldíto operate the Quito route – Miami,
• LATAM Perú couldíto initially operate a potential new route between Guayaquil – Miami,
• or is it a way to mark presence in the market between Lima and Ecuador in the face of the entry of new competitors such as the case of JetSmart.

For now, solo son ideas, so we will have to wait to see the next play of LATAM in Ecuador with this or other requests that may be given más ahead. We will inform…