In this new flight report we fly between Quito and Loja-Catamayo with Tame EP aboard an Embraer 190.
Taking advantage of a promotional rate that Tame EP sacó on this route and suddenly, encourage me to travel to Loja, what to beíto the fourth trip to that province, but above all, the fourth landing in the commercial airportás difícil of Ecuador.
The price of the passages can be high, pen la graduationón was $69 per person round trip including tax, quite acceptable for 1 hour flight to the extreme south of Ecuador and was bought from úlast minute.
A trip that hasípending for a long time, since the past times there was noíhas been able to know in so much detail such a great and beautiful province, máyou don't want anythingíto take advantage and see the flowering of the Guayacanes, but unfortunately, is añor went aheadó, but forced to return another time.
On Sunday flightséstatic, minus Galápaid, Tame sí allows web check-in, so I was finally able to use the service, since in the other trips with them to Fort Lauderdale and Baltra en Galápaid It was not possible as it was not available on those routes.
The flight
This flight is one of the first sunéstics of the dayíthat they take off from the Quito International Airport, with núflying grouper EQ145.
As we do not check luggage in the hold, we go directly to the departure lounge having printed boarding passes, a single agent was in chargeó flight boarding.
Our avióIt was the Embraer 190AR HC-COY with núMSN serial grouper 373, powered by 2 motores GE CF34-10E6, previously operatedó for Gulf Air, Denim Air and Royal Air Maroc before flying in Tame.
As we reviewed in the popular post of the ¿Becauseé there is no más flights to Catamayo – Store?, landings can only be made on the runway 07 and takeoffs down the runway 25, what makes your operationón aún más complex, that together with the weather and mountsñThat's quite a challengeíor for the pilots, who isán highly trained to land hereí.
Usually, it was an excellent flight, no news and on time. Lo úThe only thing to highlight is the totally zero service on board., where not even a glass of water is offered, but the crew members are at all timesán ready to help with any questions or problems from passengers with a good attitude.
Photos taken with the Huawei P20 PRO.
That Embraer looks brand new. very good post, I only doubt remains, if this is the most difficult "commercial" airport in Ecuador… which would be the most difficult in absolute terms?
Yes, the Embraer is impeccable. The most difficult would be Cumbaratza.
excellent report!
Thank you very much!
I have had to land in Loja several times , arriving from Quito is not so scary because the plane is big but from Guayaquil in those small planes , Holy God, you have to know how to pray a lot.
they move more, although just as safe as the Embraer are the ATR.