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Finally, Aeroregional will operate regular flights in Ecuador with which it will fly to Quito, Cuenca, Guayaquil and Santa Rosa in a first stage with their Boeing 737-500.
Before starting to fly regularly, Your flights will be in charter mode, with which it is finally possible to understand the objective of the airline, Here we have reported step by step each of your intentions to fly in Ecuador and become the fourth commercial airline in the country.
The history of Aéreoregional has evolved in the following way:
- Aéreoregional will fly between Cuenca and Guayaquil: In this first information, the company notified that between July and August it would begin flights between Cuenca and Guayaquil, at that time with RDAC air taxi operation permit 121 and they had the option of operating this route with the Cessna 421C Golden Eagle HC-CLI. Subsequently, This idea was completely ruled out by company officials due to commercial issues and the performance of the aircraft..
- Aéreoregional changes to charter operation: in the second post I made about this new airline, It was possible to know the company's plan to change its type of operation from air taxi to national charter operation RDAC 135, process in which they are currently in certification Stage 3.
- Aéreoregional already has its first Boeing 737-500, schedules and frequencies: in the third publication about this airline, the expected arrival of its first plane was announced, modelo Boeing 737-500 with HC-CTF registration, which is already in Latacunga for maintenance. further, Their first times and destinations indicated above were known.
Now, with request before the CNAC – National Civil Aviation Council will change its initial charter proposal:
The company has officially requested that it be granted an operating permit to provide the air transport service., public, domestic, regular, passenger, cargo and mail in combination with the following routes and frequencies:
- Quito and/or Cuenca – Guayaquil and vice versa: 6 weekly frequencies.
- Quito – Guayaquil – Cuenca and vice versa: 4 weekly frequencies.
- Quito – Santa Rosa and vice versa: 2 weekly frequencies.
For this end, The airline requests to incorporate the planes into its operating permit:
- Boeing 737-300/400/500/600/700/800/900.
- Airbus A319/320.
- McDonnell Douglas MD-80/90.
- Bombardier CRJ 100/200.
- Bombardier Q Series.
- Embraer 120/145.
And it is confirmed that the main base of operations will be Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport.
Itineraries and Schedules
You can find them here: www.nlarenas.com/2018/01/aereo-regional-ya-primer-boeing-737-500/
Aeroregional ticket costs
According to information found on their website, The airline will manage a single fixed price for all its routes, regardless of the anticipation of the purchase. The values are as follows:
- a stretch: $80
- Round trip: $150
With this procedure, The company, while its certification as a charter airline is still in progress, hopes to advance in the process of being a regular airline in order to, be able to sell tickets directly and publish itineraries at regular times.
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I think an ATR 42 O 72 would have been the best options for efficiency and costs
Can be, but they need to maintain a unified fleet, which also helps with costs.
With that plane it will be a failure and according to the frequencies granted in destinations and number it will also be a failure., I have the fatal experience of having worked in two airlines that do things the same now Aircuenca and Lac are bankrupt, and to make charter flights on international routes with this plane another failure , airplanes that consume twice as much fuel compared to new generation airplanes
Hello Amparo, I agree with your comment, What I hope is temporary since it is a plane that is too big for domestic flights in Ecuador and expensive., but they sure did the studies. It is said that they will also bring a CRJ 200 and a – 300.
In the end, Let's all hope for the success of the airline so that the market has greater competitiveness for the benefit of us users..
The operation begins in July?
It's good that there are more national options.
They want to start at the end of this month March,no date yet.
Positive that there is more flight offer and I hope Aéroregional can have more modern equipment in the future and can replace them with the A320 Ceo or B737 NG family. Bombardiers like CRJ-700 or Embraer 170 O 175 depending on your growth. And if turboprops are better for domestic routes, ATRs would do a good job.
They must go little by little, Same as my personal way of seeing, a 737-500 It's too big to start a project, but I hope it goes excellent.