Fifth Iberia plane with Spanish returnees departs from Ecuador to Madrid

About 285 community citizens, the vast majority of Spaniards, left this Wednesday April 29, 2020 to Madrid in which is the fifth flight of repatriation of Ecuador of the company Iberia since the covid-19 pandemic emergency began.

The flight left Quito and made a stopover in Guayaquil to pick up more passengers, last city before flying to Madrid, where he plans to arrive on Thursday morning.

The ambassador of Spain in Ecuador, Carlos Abella and Arístegui, explained to Efe that this is a flight in which the most of the passengers are Spanish, but in which there are also seven community citizens: four French, a British, a Portuguese and a Czech.

“With this, some 1,800 people will have returned to Spain on Iberia flights, of which Spanish are almost 1,400,” said the Spanish diplomat.
To date, four had left Ecuador flights of Iberia bound for Madrid on March 18, 22, 28 and 30, within the framework of the health emergency by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, added to today’s.

The number of Spaniards in Ecuador who want to return is a figure in constant evolution, because as the days go by more and more interested people appear.

The diplomatic representative highlighted how both the Embassy and the Consulates General in Quito and Guayaquil, “continue working to serve the Spanish community” in the Andean country.

And he stressed that these are “extraordinary flights, designed especially for the return of transient Spaniards, but that may also have some medical or social vulnerability.”

“We are privileging older people, children, patients with cancer, diabetes or other serious diseases that need treatment in Spain,” he concluded.
In parallel, flights by other companies have also repatriated to Spanish people since Ecuadorlike three in one that was destined Germanyeleven to United Kingdom, 41 on a French flight, and 31 on another Belgian.

The airplane of Iberia arrived on Tuesday April 28 to Quito with 287 Ecuadorian citizens who were stranded in Spain due to the closure of borders and the suspension of international flights due to the pandemic, which has punished with particular virulence the Ecuadorian coastal province of Guayas, of which Guayaquil it is capital.

Today’s is the first flight of Iberia since March 30, so the two consulates had “been contacting people who call us and requesting a return directly and individually for a long time,” they indicated from the Consulate in Quito.

Sources claimed that the lists of Spanish citizens They are “very broad”, because the stranded group far exceeds the rest of the Europeans who have expressed their intention of wanting to return to community territory, “which is being explained to the partners” of the EU.

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