LATAM Ecuador suspends the Guayaquil route – Madrid

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The airline LATAM Ecuador Guayaquil route suspended – Madrid destination where he flew with until 3 weekly flights with airplanes Boeing 767-300.

A few days ago we published the news of the expected return of Iberia on the Madrid route – Guayaquil, which will fly with four weekly flights initially with Airbus A330-200 aircraft, but not everything is always good news in aviation.

This is how we were able to confirm that LATAM Airlines Ecuador has decided to suspend its route from José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid International Airport – Barajas from the 13 from December to 2019, route that he covered since the year 2006 approximately and which at the time operated until 10 weekly frequencies.

The motives

In addition to the increase in supply in this destination that at least statistically it continues to grow, with the operation of Iberia with 7 weekly flights to Quito, until 5 weekly Air Europa flights, the 3 weekly frequencies that will operate new on the Plus Ultra route, plus the four new Iberia flights to Guayaquil, who is a commercial partner of LATAM Airlines, we could start to think about an oversupply on the route.

Commercial and financial issues are part of the causes that motivated the airline to close this, that it was a traditional route and that in one way or another it will be replaced, the same day of cessation of operations, by Iberia with the difference that it will operate an additional weekly flight, what they will represent 628 additional seats on both tracks weekly, so the Airport Guayaquil will not see its passenger movement affected it is included, would increase.

further, the factor of change in the operation of the LATAM Peru subsidiary that will begin to receive and operate Boeing airplanes 787 Dreamliner, will make it difficult to rotate the Boeings 767 that took place in Lima, now with a lower availability of this plane for this purpose at Jorge Chávez.

The rest of the routes

It is important to clarify that the rest of the routes operated by the Ecuadorian airline with Boeing aircraft 767-300 from Guayaquil they will continue to operate. These are New York that operates with one daily flight, and where it will compete with the Airbus A321Neo de JetBlue, and Lima that will increase to 1 daily flight operated with this aircraft to be able to carry out the respective rotation.

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