We review the úlast 9 months of bad news for aviationóEcuadorian route with the different routes, frequencies and aerolídenies that have stopped operating in Ecuador.
I've said it before, talk about bad news for our aviationóThat's what I like least about this blog., but it is part of the informationón berriesáutica that is generated and not everything can always be good, but specifically, the úlast 9 months have not been entirely positive for Ecuador and téterms of news toéreas and the aviationón commercial.
In this space we will not talk about sun frequencies.éstatic, but we will focus on the reality of the marketéinternational prisoner.
Ecuador with fewer routes and airídenies
Not everything startedó It is 2024, but the bad news began to appear from the 2023, that if we take the pre-pandemic toúthere is no airíneas how Air Canada, Air France and GOAL that we have not managed to recover along with direct flights to Santiago from Quito, the thing is that the 2019 Eastáwe were full of good news, growth and new aerolídenies, now everything has changed.
I'm going to review the different aerosolsílines that are gone, routes that have been cancelled/suspended and frequencies that have been reduced, and I think there are some that I canístill be escaping:
- Avianca Ecuador leftó to fly between Quito and Cancún the 19 October 2023 (operated 3 times a week).
- Viva Aerobus wateró to fly between Cancún and Quito the 8 of January of 2024 (operated 3 times a week).
- LATAM Ecuador leftó to operate between Guayaquil and Bogotá from the 31 of January of 2024.
- Conviasa wateró to fly to Quito and Guayaquil after no más de 1 month of operations in January 2024.
- KLM reduced from its traditional 7 weekly flights to Quito and Guayaquil from Amsterdam to operate 5 weekly flights currently.
- Wingo wateró to fly to Quito and Guayaquil on 7 april 2024, added up to 8 weekly flights to Ecuador secún season.
- JetBlue dejó to fly to Quito from Fort Lauderdale from the 13 June 2024, operated with up to 1 daily flight.
- Aeroméxico suspendá your flights to Quito from 1 from July to 18 from December 2024, work with 4 weekly flights (arrivedó operating 2 daily flights).
- American Airlines reduce by 2 a 1 daily flight on the traditional Miami route – I remove between the 4 of September and the 5 November 2024.
- JetSMART suspends its flights to Guayaquil from Lima beginning the 27 from August to December 2024.
- JetBlue stops flying the route between Fort Lauderdale and Guayaquil from the próximo 6 of January of 2025, route that operates with one daily flight.
And if we find ráquickly lo doméstico couldíwe love to highlight the closure of Equair 30 September 2023, but that couldíWe will review it in another installment.
Not everything is bad
Among so much bad news, other aerol has been highlightedílines that have opted for the país, as was the recent case of JetSMART which has been operating since March and April in Quito and Guayaquil respectively, Being the úonly increase of new aerolínea in our spaceéprisoner so far 2024.
Spaghettién, Copa Airlines afteró for a frequency más between Panama Cityá and blanket, route that is barely going to fulfill oneñor since its launch, that's good.
LATAM Airlines heart más flights between Quito and Guayaquil towards Lima, consolidó the daily flight to Santiago de Chile and the flight to Miami continues with very good results.
Iberia and Air Europa flights increased to Ecuador, where the first riseó a 7 weekly flights to Quito, at the end of 2024 tries to fly 5 weekly to Guayaquil and the second upó a 5 weekly flights in its triangleón since Madrid.
Avianca didn't stayó atrás e inauguró the direct route inébetween Quito and Orlando with two weekly flights, increaseó frequencies from Bogotá and to New York from Quito.
Arajet increases its flights to Ecuador and separates Quito and Guayaquil again, which begin to operate independently, going from 2 current weekly 4 frequencies from the 20 of June.
No less important is the increase, diríto already permanent, from Delta Air Lines on its route to Quito operating unchanged with the Boeing 767 instead of 757.
And I almost forgot to mention that Aeroregional startedó to operate a weekly frequency chárter between Quito and Caracas (maiquetia) with its fleet of Boeing 737s since December 2023.
We await the closure of this, for now negative toñO, with good news or at least a balance in the market, where m is not shownás caíday of the tráI'm theéreo as was the first quarter, where Ecuador was the único país of Latinamérica and the Caribbean in presenting a contractionónumber of travelers transported.
We will continue to inform and hopefullyá be good news soon. Ecuador and its airports have a strong path to recover what has been lost in this time, más about the pandemic that is still pending.
If you know of any positive news or any other reductionón that I could have missed, déjamelo know in the comments.
JetSmart opera 4 weekly flights instead of 3. I hope that by the end of the year Avianca will operate more flights to Cuenca and Buenos Aires. We also wait for the start of Sky Ecuador or Ecuacondor or some progress from Ecuatoriana.
It's true, JetSmart is currently flying with 4 weekly flights to Quito instead of three, while in Guayaquil it dropped to two frequencies of the 3 that flew.
Hi Nicolas, Comonidndocas, we hope that Ecuador's international air transport statistics for the first half of this year improve, as Delta's fleet changes, and the increases in frequencies of the other airlines add to transportation and achieve a positive result in relation to the 2023.
Let's hope so, we will be very attentive to the statistics!
Hello there, Nicholas. Aeroregional will begin operating flights from Quito to Cali via Esmeraldas tomorrow, giving life to an airport without commercial operation since Avioandes canceled its Dash 8 in April of last year. It will also begin 7 of July (until the 16 of August) seasonal charter flights from Quito to Porlamar.
Greetings from Spain from a regular reader!!
Thanks Alex, see the Aeroregional, but I'm not sure they will start flying to Cali, Your page no longer sells it for the opening date.. About Porlamar, They are charter flights also like those to Punta Cana, Cartagena or San Andrés. Thanks for the contribution and support!