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The now Aéroegional airline already has its first Boeing 737-500, which arrived in Latacunga – Cotopaxi from Tegucigalpa. It is expected in March, no date yet defined, the start of its charter flights from Cuenca to Guayaquil, Quito, Santa Rosa and other domestic destinations.
Photo that accompanies the post thanks to Alejandro Aceves.
Update: Aéreoregional will operate regular flights.
With new Ecuadorian registration HC-CTF, the first plane for Aéreo Regional landed last Friday 19 at about 10 at night from Tegucigalpa. In total silence and anticipating the intentions of the company to offer a new charter service from Cuenca to satisfy the unattended demand of the third largest city in Ecuador, the boeing arrived 737-500 which according to the account Aeromundo Magazine, Before flying, it will undergo scheduled A8 maintenance at the facilities of the DIAF in Latacunga.
Schedules and frequencies of Regional Air flights
Regional Air will triangulate between Cuenca, Guayaquil and Quito operating a daily flight between each destination. The start of its charter flights is expected at the beginning of June:
Cuenca – Quito
This route will operate with 1 daily flight:
- Route Cuenca to Quito takes off 06:00 am and lands in Quito at 07:00 am.
- Route Quito to Cuenca takes off at 18:00 pm and lands in Cuenca at 18:40 pm.
Quito – Guayaquil
This route will operate with 1 daily flight:
- Quito to Guayaquil route takes off at 08:00 am and will land in Guayaquil at 8:35 am.
- Guayaquil to Quito route takes off at 17:00 pm and will land in Quito at 17:35 pm.
Guayaquil – Cuenca
This route will operate with 1 daily flight:
- Guayaquil to Cuenca route takes off at 09:00 am and lands in Cuenca at 09:30 am.
- Cuenca to Guayaquil route takes off at 16:00 pm and lands in Guayaquil at 16:30 pm.
It was found that the fixed cost of a round trip flight between Cuenca, Guayaquil and Quito would be $170 with taxes included. Soon they would also fly to Santa Rosa.
Historia del Boeing HC-CTF
This plane has little more than 26 years old since its production and first flight with MSN number 25176. Initially this aircraft operated for China Southern Airlines with registration B-2547 in 1991 and later passed to Aerolíneas Argentinas as LV-BDV. For the year 2012 changed ownership to WFBN Wells Fargo Bank Northwest with registration N461UF.
Years after operating for Wells Fargo Bank, comes the interesting part for us. The plane was purchased by EasySky Airline with registration HR-EMH and within the project of the Ecuadorian airline that never took off., South American Aviation, the plane was registered as HC-CPC but it never arrived in Ecuador and should have been the twin of the Boeing 737-500 HC-COP that did arrive in Ecuador, but did not make any commercial flights to South America, while he did fly for a few months to LAC – Cuencana Airline.
After carrying the registration HC-CPC, the aircraft returned to its previous registration HR-EMH operating for the Mexican airline Global Air at 2014 and later from this same airline, obtained its new Ecuadorian registration, remembering that in Ecuador there is no license plate recycling, so it was not feasible to reuse the license plate that was once already assigned to it.
This aircraft arrived in Ecuador with a single class configuration with the capacity to 129 passengers.
More about Regional Air
With the arrival of your first plane and confirming its origin, reaffirms the information that had been published in the post about the change of operation of air taxi to Aéreo Regional charter, that the new shareholder was the businessman Manuel Rodriguez, on this occasion in his second foray and attempt to operate a charter airline in Ecuador.
Despite this, Even on the website of the Superintendency of Companies, there have been no changes in the shareholders or administrators of this company, which is also currently in the process of selling its assets, such as a Britten Normal BN-2A ISLANDER..
the plane arrived
Photos of the arrival of the plane in Latacunga were published on social networks (credits to the authors)
The plane arrived in Ecuador with Easy Sky titles, but later they will be changed by those of Aéreo Regional prior to the start of flights and during the certification process..
further, In a statement, the airline informed that they are in the process of Phase 3 advanced certification and that its maintenance center will be located at the Santa Rosa Regional Airport, province of El Oro and hope to cover the 80% of airports nationwide.
Now let's hope that the airline complies with all the certification processes to see its flights take off by March, but no exact date.
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