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Anticipating the peak cargo season for rose exports between February and March, the freighter Sky Lease requests to operate regularly to Ecuador with up to 10 weekly flights that will be operated from Miami. (Image accompanying the post is from the airline partner Centurion Cargo).
UPDATE 02/03/2018
With date 18 from January, The airline was authorized to operate regularly to Ecuador with up to 10 weekly flights.
Sky Lease Cargo, Centurion Air Cargo partner airline, recently requested from the CNAC – National Civil Aviation Council of Ecuador, that the regular operation permit be granted for the provision of air transport service, public, international, regular charging, under the following terms and conditions:
In the order, the airline requests to fly from Miami and/or Mexico and/or Port of Spain and/or San Juan and/or Guatemala City and/or Salvador and/or San Pedro Sula and/or Tegucigalpa and/or Panama City and/or Caracas and /or Maracibo and/or Valencia and/or Barcelona and/or Bogotá and/or Cali and/or Medellín and/or Manaus and/or Sao Paulo and/or Rio de Janeiro and/or Cabo Frio and/or Brasilia and/or Salvador Bahía and/or Guarulhos and/or Curitiba and/or Tucumán and/or Medonza and/or Buenos Aires and/or Montevideo and/or Las Piedras and/or Ciudad del Este and/or Iquique and/or Antofagasta until Quito and/or Latacunga and/or Guayaquil and/or Manta – Lima and/or Santiago and/or Buenos Aires and/or Montevideo and/or La Paz and/or Santa Cruz and/or Asunción and/or Rio de Janeiro and/or Sao Paulo and/or Amsterdam and/or Monscú and vice versa.
The flights will be operated by Boeing 747-400F and MD-11F aircraft from the Sky Lease group – Centurion.
With all these options of destinations and stopovers, The airline seeks to make its operation profitable by flying according to cargo demand to one or more of the indicated points until reaching Ecuador., where they propose to operate any of the 4 indicated Ecuadorian cities and subsequently, fly to the south of the continent to finally fly to Europe to Amsterdam or Moscow and return. This final point is interesting., the airline seeks to carry cargo from Ecuador (and the rest of America) to Europe, where the demand and distribution will always be through Amsterdam and in high season to Russia they will be able to reach Moscow and not necessarily move the cargo to Miami as the airline's cargo operation has traditionally been carried out..
With this operation, The airline "will go down" towards the south of America from Miami, loading cargo onto its planes at each stop, finally targeting the European market and returning carrying cargo back to Miami.
Sky Lease Cargo Operation – Centurion Air Cargo in Ecuador
First it must be indicated that both airlines are partners and operate together, Therefore, the operation of both airlines in Ecuador has been "mixed", meaning that on some occasions Centurion aircraft have been seen operating Sky Lease flights and vice versa..
Sky Lease Cargo was founded in 1969 as Wrangler Aviation and later its name changed to Tradewinds Airlines, which also operated in Ecuador on some occasions with its Boeing 747-400F aircraft. Tradewinds takes the name of Sky Lease Cargo in the 2011 and currently has a fleet of 6 planes, 4 son MD-11F y 2 Boeing 747-400F. Fly mainly to South America and Amsterdam from Miami.
in the last 2 years, Sky Lease operated in Ecuador sporadically under charter mode and its flights were operated by its aircraft or those of Centurion Cargo..
On the other hand, Centurion Air Cargo has a longer history in Ecuador. Centurion was founded in 1985 under the name Challenge Air Cargo and currently operates a fleet of 3 planes, 1 Boeing 747-400F y 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F. Currently flying at more than 20 Destinations, principally, just like Sky Lease, in South America and Amsterdam.
This cargo airline operated in Ecuador under charter mode for more than 4 years to the Cotopaxo Alternative Airport of Latacunga, where he flew to 4 times a week from Miami and back. This operation ceased at the beginning of 2017 and its flights have sometimes landed in Quito according to demand and under charter mode..
Now, with the agreement Ministerial 002 and in the face of growing demand in the cargo segment to and from Ecuador from Europe due to the Agreement with the European Union, the airline has decided to fly regularly to Ecuador, so we can see it several times a week landing in Ecuador, mainly in Quito.
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