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With date 2 of January of 2018 hour 07:20 am, Air Europa landed in Quito and resumes triangulation between Madrid – Quito and Guayaquil, operating in the capital of Ecuador with up to 5 weekly flights on Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
It took a little more than 1 year since the airline returned to Ecuador with direct flights to Guayaquil from Madrid for the airline to make a new move and announce your route to Quito.
In the year 2004 and for a short period, Air Europa already operated in Quito. back then, the route was also operated triangulating with Quito and Guayaquil to Madrid on Boeing planes 767-300, but at that time due to market situations and competition, since they operated at the same time Iberia, LAN Ecuador y Air Europa, the market had an oversupply and the airline could not maintain the route.
Now 13 years later, Air Europa returns to Quito again after officially announcing the opening of the route on 29 November during the celebration of the first year of operations in Guayaquil.
having fulfilled 1 year flying in Guayaquil after his return to the country and having transported more than 40 thousand passengers with an average occupancy of 80%, the airline landed in Quito and is committed to improving its position in the country by offering the Ecuadorian market more connection options with Europe.
Air Europa landed in Quito
The landing on his return to Quito took place in an Airbus 330-200, starting its flight from the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas International Airport at 01:35 am and landing at Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Tababela at 07:20 am.
In this opportunity, the plane in charge of operating the route, on the second day of the year 2018, It was the Airbus A330-202 EC-JZL baptized «David Bisbal, MSN 814 with 11 years in operation for the company. This aircraft has a maximum capacity of 299 passengers, distributed in 2 lessons, one of 24 passengers in Business and another for 275 en Economy. The aircraft is powered by 2 motores General Electric 2 x GE CF6-80E1A3 and has an autonomy of up to 6750 miles or so 14 flight hours.
The route from Madrid to Quito has a duration of 11 hours with 45 minutes and after landing in Quito and a technical scale of 2 hours, where all passengers with final destination Guayaquil disembark from the plane so that it is prepared and cleaned for the rest of the flight to Madrid, took off towards the "Pearl of the Pacific" at 9:20 am and landed at 10:10 am, to later take off back to Europe at 12:30 pm as usual in the operation more than a year ago.
as always tradition, the inaugural flight was received by the water arch of the aeronautical firefighters of the Quito Airport and after this event the respective press conference for passengers was held, guests and authorities, along with a nice breakfast for all attendees.
arrival in from @AirEuropa a #Quito on his first flight ✈️ https://t.co/q8Wh0AGWIC
— Nicholas Larenas ✈️ (@n_larenas) January 2, 2018
The first flight had an occupancy of 278 passengers, of which 80 they got off in Quito and 27 they got on to continue towards Madrid via Guayaquil.
The flights are currently in promotion to and from Quito and tickets can be found from the $600 US dollars onwards according to the anticipation of purchase and class.
Frequencies Air Europa flights to Quito and Guayaquil
Air Europa flights operate to Ecuador with up to 5 weekly frequencies in high season and 3 low season flights.
Between the third week of January 2018 until the end of May, flights operate on monday wednesday and friday. While since June the 5 weekly frequencies operate on Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesday, Fridays and Saturdays until the last week of September when the 3 weekly flights.
The airline's projections indicate that they expect to transport more than 90.000 passengers in the first year flying in Quito and in the future maintain the 5 weekly frequencies in low season until reaching the daily flight in high season.
It is expected in the near future that this route will be covered with the most modern Boeing aircraft. 787-8 Dreamliner, of which have 8 currently in its fleet and with the intention of incorporating 18 more of these planes, but from the version -9 since the year 2020.
Equally, in the medium term future, the airline hopes to be able to awaken the Ecuadorian market and to be able to divide Quito and Guayaquil so that they operate independently as independent markets.
El Airbus A330
Exclusively we were able to meet the Airbus A330 that covered this inaugural flight. Out of a total of 10 aircraft of this model in its fleet, Air Europa gradually and in the medium term, will replace them with the newer Boeing 787. It should be noted that they also have 2 aircraft model Airbus A330-300.
Despite his future destined to leave the fleet, these planes have the best technology and comfort for customers. Individual screens are the main entertainment system that the airline's passengers enjoy on board on the airline's long-haul flights and it also has a Wi-Fi system on board.
- Access to national and international press and a selection of magazines. documentaries, series, music and movies.
- On long-distance journeys, passengers will be able to choose movies, series or documentaries that will be different on the way there and back.
- WiFi access to browse or use social networks.
The Air Europa fleet is one of the youngest in all of Europe and has quickly allowed the company to quickly position itself in the market by feeding its long-haul HUB in Madrid with its mid-range destinations in Spain and Europe..
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