And one day, Air France returned to Ecuador

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And one day, Air France returned to Ecuador after 25 years of its last regular commercial operation to Quito from Paris.

Being the 18:30 hours of the day thursday 23 of May fulfilling the itinerary on time and 10 days after the original opening date of direct flights from Paris to Quito, the main French airline landed again in the Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport thus resuming direct regular commercial operations between Ecuador and France.

A) Yes, once again Ecuador is connected with France and this time directly without stops with what will be the initial three weekly flights operated with Air France Airbus A340-300 aircraft, although his painting, until completing the return of the aircraft to the fleet, could arrive in Quito with colors of Joon.

For the start of operations, the airline has determined the operation with flights on Wednesdays, Thursday and Saturday and for now, based on your current operating permit, an increase in flights is not contemplated in the medium term.

The return of Air France to Quito

One of the most important news in the Ecuadorian airline industry developed from the 2018 and the whole process was covered in this space under the following chronology:

• The 13 September 2018 the official intention of the airline to return to Quito was known for the first time with three weekly frequencies, at that moment, with its defunct subsidiary, Joon.
• The 10 October 2018 started the sales of the route under the Joon brand.
• For him 30 October 2018 We exclusively interviewed Rob Westerman General Manager for the Andean Countries of Air France-KLM where we could learn details about the route.
• Being a 7 from December to 2018 the airline started the pcertification process to obtain the operating permit on the Paris route – Quito.
• After Joon's closure confirmation, the 24 of January of 2019 it was confirmed that Air France would be the airline that again operates flights to Ecuador.
• Thanks to promising initial sales on the road, the 28 march 2019 the airline confirmed the intention to operate all year round and not only during the summer season in Europe and also, operate with the modern Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
• With everything ready to start the flights, we publish after a long investigation the review history of Air France in its operation to Quito.
• Due to logistical/operational problems, we inform exclusively that the arrival of Air France was postponed 10 days, to officially start the 23 May 2019.

Air France landed in Quito, again

after lengths 25 years and now with a growing international aviation market, The world-renowned Air France returned to Ecuador with its direct flights to Quito Airport, located in Tababela.

for this new route, the airline implemented promotional fares that started from $690 dollars round trip including all taxes, in order to stimulate demand to and from Paris, offering an interesting variety of connection options to Europe, Asia, Africa and others. While in Ecuador tourists will be able to connect with Cuenca, Guayaquil, Galapagos and more domestic routes.

In the expected and much anticipated first flight, the airline assigned to the Airbus A340-313, which has the MSN serial number 260, license plate F-GLZP (joon colors) with 20 years from its first flight straight from the factory. This aircraft is configured to carry 278 passengers set to 3 classes with 30 business class seats, 21 in Premium Economy and 227 seats in Economy Class and is powered by four CFM56-5 engines with up to 15.400 kilos of thrust.

Both the arrival and departure flights had an average occupancy of 170 passengers of 278 available seats, very good numbers to start operations.

The three weekly frequencies will operate at the following published schedules:

• The flight from Paris will have the number AF646 and will take off at 1:10 pm to land in Quito at 18:10 with a duration of 12 hours.
• From Quito the flight number AF641 will take off at 20:10 hours and will land back in Paris-Charles de Gaulle at 14:20 the next day with 11 hours and 10 minutes long.

¡Bienvenida nuevamente a Quito!

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