This Wednesday, June 3, the Spirit airline, from Fort Lauderdale, will be the first to reopen an international route in the Guayaquil airport once regular passenger flights were resumed, they were suspended for more than two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ángel Córdova, manager of Tagsa, the José Joaquín de Olmedo airport concessionaire, pointed out that the company will start three weekly flights to Fort Lauderdale, in the state of Florida, United States.
A day later, American Airlines will also resume its frequencies between Ecuador and Miami, according to Edwin Rincón, the airline’s sales manager.
Airlines, destinations and dates of resumption of international flights in June for Guayaquil and Quito
- Spirit: Fort Lauderdale-Guayaquil, June 3 (confirmed, three frequencies a week)
- American Airlines: Miami-Guayaquil, Miami-Quito, June 4 (confirmed, five frequencies a week)
- JetBlue: Fort Lauderdale-Guayaquil, June 11 (confirmed, three frequencies a week)
- Eastern: New York-Guayaquil, June 15 (to be confirmed)
- Cup: Panama-Guayaquil, June 26 (to be confirmed)
Companies like Avianca and Latam schedule your international flight itineraries for the coming weeks. European airlines have announced that they will probably start their flights from July.
For now only Spirit, American Airlines and JetBlue, which operate to and from the state of Florida, are the only three companies that have submitted their itineraries to fly in June, “said Miguel Ortega, chief of operations at Guayaquil airport. .
The resumption of international flights under a “new normal” will be done with more rigorous protocols that passengers must comply with, such as the mandatory use of masks, respecting physical distance, passing through temperature controls and disinfection in terminals.
In addition, travelers arriving in the country must come with an endorsement that certifies that they were subjected to COVID-19 tests. Upon arrival they will undergo other rapid tests: if it is negative, it goes home; if she tests positive, she goes to the hotel for mandatory preventive isolation for fourteen days and must pay all her expenses.
In the case of Guayaquil, foreigners who arrive must comply with the isolation in a hotel, whether they give a positive or negative test.
Domestic flights, June 15
With a severe blow to their finances and reduced by the coronavirus pandemic, most of the airlines that operate in the Ecuadorian domestic market will return to operate from June 15.
The return will begin with the operation of few routes in the national market, a niche that loses Tame, which handled 33% of the quota.
The airline entered into a liquidation process and although it could operate in these 60 days, it stopped selling tickets. And the authorities analyze making only punctual flights, which do not leave more losses.
Latam and Avianca, who had plans to fly from the 1st, postponed that for the fortnight because national flights in Guayaquil were only allowed on that date.
The local subsidiaries of these multinationals have not escaped this crisis. Both Avianca Ecuador and Latam Ecuador are undergoing reorganization processes after their parents filed for Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy law. USA
Between these airlines and AeroRegional, which also competes in the domestic niche, it is estimated that there will be a redistribution of the market. (I)
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