Spanish airline Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas authorized to fly to Ecuador

Low resolutionón of the Ministry of Development of Spainñto dated 5 march 2018, the airíne española Plus Ultra Líneas AéAreas authorized to fly to Ecuador. It is pending to know the exact date of intentionón start these flights that canán be a Quito O Guayaquil.

Such and cómo haveíIt was published at the end of this Januaryén past, an aerosolíNea de España was seeking to be authorized and assigned frequencies to fly from that countryís European to Ecuador.

In the bilateral agreements between both paíwere available 9 frequencies, of these 6 were requested and authorized by Plus Ultra to fly to Ecuador, leaving the resolutionón as follows:

In relationón with the assignment procedureón of rights of tráI stay between Spainña and Ecuador started on date 23 of January of 2018, once it has been verified that the reasons for denial do not existón provided for in artíass 13.2 of the Royal Decree 1678/2011, from 18 of November, by which information is regulatedón about the rights of tráI'm theéprisoner from agreements with third States in which Spainña be part and the réthey moan from their exercise, This directionón General of Aviationón Civil has resolved:

Assign traffic rightsáfico available on the market atéprisoner españa – Ecuador as follows:

• Six (6) weekly frequencies to Plus Ultra.

Consequently, taking into account the frequencies assigned prior to this procedure, The capacity in this market is established as follows:

• Cinco (5) weekly frequencies to Air Europa.
• Seven (7) weekly frequencies to Iberia.
• Six (6) weekly frequencies to Plus Ultra.

Under the assignment procedureón of frequencies, now from Spainña and Ecuador are only left 3 available to assign, which could potentiallyíto be taken 2 by Air Europa to complete the 7 weekly flights and 1 remaining for the same Plus Ultra to complete the same núflight grouper. If any other aerosolíne españwave at a certain moment determines the need to fly to Ecuador, dutyá request that bilateral agreements be improved Ecuador – España.

See habíhas speculated that among the AerolíCandidate areas to take over these frequencies were the airlines.ídenies Wamos Air, Norwegian Air International, LEVEL y Evelop, but finally we will have Plus Ultra in Ecuador, aerolínea that in one way or another already has experience flying in our countryís.

Sobre Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas

More Ultra (HERE PU – ICAO PUE), founded on theñO 2011 for Julio Martínez Sola and Fernando González Enfedaque both part of the defunct Air Madrid, aerolínea that flewó to Quito and Guayaquil until the 15 from December to 2006 will close operations to all its destinations.

Plus' base of operations is located at the Madrid Barajas International Airport from where it currently flies only international routes with a fleet made up of 3 aircraft of the Airbus A340-300 model that have a capacity 303 passengers configured in 3 lessons (Business, Economy Premium y Economy)

Al díto today with its long-range fleet, the airínea flies úonly to airports in South Americaérica, adding up 3 destinations in the regionón, which are:

• Lima – Jorge Chavez International Airport
• Santiago de Chile – Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport
• Caracas – Maiquet International Airportía

Another line of business that the airline hasínea is the leasing of its ACMI aircraft or wet lease for other airlines.ílines or flightsárter. Within this form of business the airlineílanding lineó at Manta Airport after the earthquake that hitó the Ecuadorian coast arriving with humanitarian aid, rescue and fire personnel.

Within the plans of this toñO 2018 For Plus Ultra, it stands out to continue growing in the regionón and the incorporationón up 2 Airbus A330-200 model aircraft, with which to possibly startíon their flights to Ecuador.

Operationón and flights Spainña – Ecuador

With the assignmentón of this 6 new frequencies, the Ecuadorian market will remainá covered with up 21 weekly flights (may be less secureún high or low season), of which 3 are served by the única aerolíEcuadorian line flying to Europe which is LATAM Ecuador flying 3 times a week from Guayaquil.

With all assigned flights there will beán más de 12.500 seats available between Ecuador and Spainñhas an númere record between both nations.

Currently all flights between both paíThese are made to and from Madrid, so that market caníto be reaching your mámaximum offer and beíIt's interesting that the aerosolsícurrent areas or others explore alternatives such as Barcelona where there is important connectivity and Ecuadorians living thereí.

So far the airlineínea has not presented the formal request to fly to Ecuador before the Aviation Councilón Civilian of Ecuador – CNAC, so in the próyou moan – weeks months we will get to knowás details such as the destination(s) in Ecuador and núnumber of final frequencies to operate, since the 6 assigned does not imply the total use of them, as is the case of Iberia that uses 6 from 7.

We will keep reporting…