Flights to the Galapagos Islands – Avianca Ecuador

Today we will talk about flights to the Gal IslandsáAvianca Ecuador payments from continental Ecuador. In a special 3 deliveries, we will review the aerosolsílines currently operating, the daily and weekly frequencies that each of them has at «enchanted islands».

First delivery: LATAM Ecuador.
Third installment: Tame EP.

First of all, must be clarified, for those tourists who want to visit Galápayments from another countryís dutyán, sí o sí, pass through continental Ecuador, whether the International Airports of Guayaquil or Quito, this as immigration and health control prior to the visit of any person to the Islands. Being an ecosystem úunique and very delicate, anyone, avióno boatón can go directly to Galápayments without going through case controls, this is why, that there are no direct flights from paíyour neighbors or más far away from a tourist destinationísought-after aesthetic and that by nature of the tourist businessístic, dutyían haber.

Without these controls, the islands areíexposed to uncontrolled pests or diseases, putting the natural state of the Archipi at high riskélago. Even, within the needs of immigration control, authorities recently implemented new requirements to visit the islands which includes having a return ticket, invitation letterón and others.

Before talking about the specific flightsíficos, It should be noted that another measure to control the ecosystem of the islands, is the strict control of theúgroup of annual visitors who can enter the islands by vía aéarea or seaíteam (It is the other means of transportation to Galápaid, What can you take by boat? 3 dítravel ace, but it is not done commerciallyás that for the transfer of military personnel or personnel working in the Islands).

Este control is about regulationón that is applied by the Government Council of the RéSpecial Gal moanápaid, Its objective is to regulate theúgroup of frequencies toéweekly areas flying to Galápayments from Quito or Guayaquil, so every time an aerolínea wants to fly to the islands or increase frequencies, should beá carry out and present an environmental impact study that guarantees that the new operationón not affectá the ecosystem and will notá that the núnumber of visitors exceeds the mámaximum allowed (about 250 thousand tourists per yearño o unos 20 thousand tourists monthly).

Aerolílines that fly to Galápaid

Currently, a Galápayments fly 3 aerolíneas doméEcuadorian aesthetics. These aerosolílines are Avianca Ecuador, LATAM Ecuador and Tame EP, among which add up to más de 8 daily frequencies at 2 main airports of Baltra and San Cristóbal (soon we will talk in a post about these airports), úonly airports that can receive commercial flights. The third airport is Isabela, where log flights arriveístatic flights from the armed forces and inter-island flights from the other 2 mentioned airports.

All flights to GaláPayments begin in Quito and the largestíto them towards the Galápaid, perform a t scaleéconical and rise más passengers in Guayaquil. With an increase in demand, some aerosolíairlines have implemented direct flights from the capital of Ecuador to Baltra úonly.

Avianca Ecuador (before Aerogal) First delivery:

Formerly known as Aerolíneas Galápaid to Aerogal, was the «aerolíflag line» of the islands (not officially), so much for his name, as for their colors and paint on their planes that they doían allusionón to various animals of the Gal Islandsápaid. Subsequently, with the change to Avianca, the airíNea has had to recover its participationón on flights to the Archipiélake and the úlast toñIt has recovered that ground for you and now it is the Aerolínea with más flights from mainland Ecuador.

Itineraries and flights from Avianca Ecuador to Galápaid

Like the others 2 aerolídenies, Avianca Ecuador operates to Baltra and San Cristóbal with the following times and frequencies:

Quito – Baltra – Quito direct

 

Direct flights do not operate daily, but yesí, until 2 daily flights on díSundays generally on Airbus A319 aircraft. Those díso there are no direct flights between one direction or the other, the flight returns or is generated in Guayaquil.

Guayaquil – Baltra – Guayaquil

Between Guayaquil and Baltra, operate until 3 daily flights on días sábad and there are at least 1 daily flight between both destinations, operated with Airbus A320 aircraft.

Quito – Guayaquil – San Cristóbal

All flights to San Cristobalóbal, They are generated in Quito with a stopover in Guayaquil, operating as follows:

 

Avianca operates 1 daily flight to San Cristobalóbal from Quito with stopover in Guayaquil, generally with Airbus A319 aircraft.

The 22 of September, metó the to intendón of Avianca Ecuador in increasing the núnumber of weekly flights to San Crist Islandóbal this way:

Aerolínea @Avianca_ec requestá increase the 14 weekly flights on the route #Quito – #Guayaquil – #SanCristobal, #Galápaid ✈ pic.twitter.com/y2cgfBMeqp

— Nicolás Larenas ✈️ (@n_larenas) September 22, 2017

with this order, Aerolíneas Galápayments S.A. Aerogal (Avianca Ecuador) seeks to operate 5 additional flights between Quito and/or Guayaquil – San Cristóbal – Guayaquil and/or Quito, what to implyía 1 additional daily flights to reach the 2 diaries.

Currently, Avianca Ecuador also operatesén additional flights to the Islandsún demand and season, what makes it the aerolínea with más flights, totaling a total of 26 weekly flights in a víOh 52 round trip (is núgrouper may vary by season).

Stadiumístatic

During the 2015, Avianca Ecuador occupiesó the 37% of the participationómarket number, following in first place, but LATAM Ecuador follows very closely. During the 2016 the trend has been similar.

In the AñO 2015, Avianca Ecuador transportó 4.781 tourists más on their flights, what a represents 6% más compared to the 2014. for himñO 2016, due to the earthquake 16 April in Manabí, tourism to Galápayments tooén was affected, with a caígive up 15% for all tour operatorsístatic.