Today I am going to tell you cómo is the direct flight of LATAM Ecuador between the cities of Cuenca and Guayaquil, That operates 5 times a week on airplanes Airbus A319.
Since July 2022 that this route operates and surely many of you did not know itían, in fact, many times blog readers and social network followers write to me to ask: ¿becauseé there are no direct flights between Guayaquil and Cuenca? But I always tell them thatÍ HAY.
To their surprise, the route operates and isá going pretty well close to meeting 2 años, that's why I searchedé finally do this flight report so that everyone can know this square theméstic between such important cities.
Flying direct between Cuenca and Guayaquil
Welcome to flight report of this route, but before going to the content, let's see it on video, since on the YouTube channel I prepared themé a report tooén so that they can know and see más route details:
Let's get into the matter, This route currently operates five times a week on daysías lunes, miércoles, Thursday, Fridays and Sundays on airplanes Airbus A319 configured for 144 passengers.
¿The schedules? They are not fixed and change every dayía, but I leave you the exact data:
- Monday: takes off from Cuenca at 07:26 am.
- Meércoles: takes off from Cuenca at 2:00 pm.
- Thursday: takes off from Cuenca at 6:11 pm.
- Friday: takes off from Cuenca at 4:34 pm.
- Sundays: takes off from Cuenca at 4:49 pm
for my flight, the A319 HC-CPJ con núgrouper serial MSN03671 and has 15 años since his first flight on the airlineínea was responsible for taking us to Guayaquil in a very short time, ¿thaté the flight is so short?
Well it only lastedó 25 minutes, a super short route and that in fact, it's from máshort s that operates a 319 in the world, what if it were in himístraight line coveríat a distance of sólo 148 kilómeters, but how is there mountñthose of by average, the route is something más long and takes más time than if there were fewer obstacleságlasses.
Remember that like everything National Flight, the suggestion míThe idea is to get closer to the airport máximo 1 hour before your departure time, but since the Cuenca Airport is small, will not haveás many problems or delays, thoseí, In case you have to check a suitcase in the hold, you canías necesitar más time, but if you check-in in the LATAM APP and use the self-bag-drop kiosks you will saveás a long time.
After check-in, we must go to the departure lounge, which in my case was the 1, it's difficultíeasy to get lost in Cuenca, así that they go calmly and enjoy the offer of restaurants and shopping that isán available.
Boarding in LATAM is done by groups, así what hereéget in line, solo, sí, only when your group has been called, but doás that the process is máIt's slow for everyone, además, the grandfatheróI don't know how to goá you son, ya isás to meters from the aircraft.
In Cuenca there is a peculiarity, flights board and disembark through both the rear and front doors, así who follows the instructions of the agents at the gate, they will tell youán if you go up from the front or from the backás of the avión.
The millet questionón and they surely want to know, ¿cuámany passengers traveled on this route? The answer is this: from Guayaquil to Cuenca 99 passengers and Cuenca to Guayaquil 86 passengers, that surely the días lunes, Friday and Sunday your request isún major, that's why it went upó recently to 5 weekly flights.
This flight is súper ráI ask, 25 minutes to 33 minutes on average depending on route and traffic conditionsáfico, so you canás enjoy at least a little of the streaming entertainment service that airlines have. LATAM con series, byíbutts and más. You just have to connect to the aircraft's WiFi and from thereí enter play.latam.com (spaghettiéThere is no live map of the flight).
Despite the shortness of the route, the airínea offers a snack service throughout the avión composed of a bag of nuts, not bad if we see the distance and durationón, in the end, you get to Guayaquil and you eat a good onion.
I leave you some tips: if they arrive with connectionónational, couldán go directly to the national departure lounge, There are steps that allow you to go up without going through filters again.. If your final destination is international, dutyáwith hacer migrationón sí o sí, check with your airlineíFind out if your luggage is checked to the final destination or you must remove it.
Landing recordé that this route flewé does toñen route to Galápaid, that then with Tame in a Embraer 170, It was a nice flight, where 30 people connected with Baltra in Guayaquil.
This is a summary, that without a doubt I show it in meás detail in the Flight Report video above, but I couldn'títo stop telling you about this important and necessary route, más today in díto what the víbetween the Austro and Guayaquil Eastán in poor condition and reports of thefts occur daily.
Let's support this route and initiative LATAM so that frequencies are increased and it continues to be profitable due to the benefit of the connectivity of the country.ís and the cities involved.
