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After making public the intention to operate under the modality air taxi between Cuenca and Guayaquil, the now Aéreo Regional airline changes its operating permit to charter operation.
See the first Boeing 737-500 from Regional Air HERE.
UPDATE 14/05/2018
The Aeroregional company obtained today 14 May 2018 officially your AOC – Air Operator's Certificate or in Spanish Air Operator Certificate under charter modality, with which you can start offering your charter services and even, He already made his first commercial charter flight with the soccer team Barcelona Sporting Club between Guayaquil and Cuenca on Sunday 13 just past.
This is the first charter flight of @aereoregional what does he do in #Ecuador after achieving certification as an air operator, @barcelonaSC el primer cliente ✈️ https://t.co/qNjNqVwHKs
— Nicholas Larenas ✈️ (@n_larenas) May 13, 2018
With charter operator certificate, the next step for the airline is to carry out the regular operator certification, the same one that also started today 14 of May.
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At first the flights between Cuenca and Guayaquil would have been made with his plane Cessna 421C with capacity for 6 u 8 passengers, but due to presenting certain restrictions under certain conditions, this aircraft would have operated limited or restricted from the capital of Azuay, especially since it is an operation at height, heat and short track. In case of engine loss, the operation would not have been possible, they indicated those familiar with the subject on social networks or simply, everything was initial misinformation on the part of the company or Cuenca press that reported on this particular.
Now, The company requested a modification in its operating permit in order to start operating in charter mode under the following characteristics:
This request was approved where the class of service is modified, changing from air taxi to domestic public air transport service, not regulate in charter modality, passenger, cargo and mail combined throughout the Ecuadorian continental territory.
further, It was approved to incorporate the following aircraft into its operating permit: Cessna 206, Cessna C-421, Islander BN-2A (these 3 already part of the fleet), Piper PA-34 Seneca, Embraer EMB-120, Combardier CRJ-100/200, McDonnell Douglas MD-81, MD-82, MD-83, MD-87, MD-88 and MD-93, Boeing 737-300/400/500 y Airbus A319/320.
Future of Regional Air
Of all these planes, Apart from those that are already part of the fleet that AeroRegional and that, as commented in the primer post was for sale, the most likely to reach Ecuador are the Boeing 737-500 or the CRJ-100.
From first source it was learned that Aéreo Regional is in the process of effective sale to the same owner of the Honduran airline EasySky, the businessman Manuel Rodriguez and who some time ago tried to start operations in Ecuador with the airline Suramericana de Aviación with the Boeing plane 737-500 HC-COP and HC-CPC that never arrived in Ecuador.
To remember, after the failed attempt of Suramericana, the HC-COP aircraft was leased by LAC – Cuencana Air Line and later began to operate in EasySky as one of its 2 aircraft of this model out of a total of 5 which includes a CRJ-100 that long ago was rumored to operate in a second attempt at Suramericana.
According to information that has circulated in the press, Aéreo Regional would hope to start its charter flights in January and the Boeing 737-500 would be the most likely to operate in this nascent airline while they advance in the certification and legal processes.
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