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the spanish airline Iberia prepare your return to Guayaquil from Madrid, en route that will operate from December 2019 with four weekly flights.
In what will be his return to Guayaquil as a second destination in Ecuador, It will be an expected return by Iberia after having stopped operating the Madrid triangulation – Quito – guayaquil in february 2017 and will allow the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport to continue propping up a important growth in what was the 2018 and that this was consolidated 2019.
After meeting the cancellation of the LATAM Ecuador route between Guayaquil and Madrid that will operate until the same day that Iberia restarts its operations in Guayaquil, carried out the process to modify its operating permit before the National Civil Aviation Council of Ecuador – CNAC, which was successfully approved, for the modification of its operating permit for this new route based on the following determination:
Iberia requested to modify its operating permit for the regular international public passenger air transport service, cargo and regular mail with the non-stop direct route on the Madrid route – Guayaquil – Madrid with four weekly frequencies.
This operation is scheduled to start from next December, exactly on sunday 13 of said month, with Airbus A330 aircraft and potentially also Airbus A340-600 aircraft that are part of its current operating permit in Ecuador.
Schedules
The flights will operate on Mondays, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at the following times:
- Flight IB-6461 will take off from Madrid at 12:20 hours and will land in Guayaquil at 18:10 hours with a duration of 11 hours and 50 direct flight minutes.
- For the return from Guayaquil, flight IB-6460 will take off at 20:45 hours and will land the next day in Madrid at 13:55 hours with a duration of 11 hours and 10 direct flight minutes
Mercado
As we reviewed in a previous installment, the air market between Ecuador and Madrid continues to grow and during the year 2018 they were transported 580.178 passengers, which makes it the main connection and gateway to Europe.
According to data from Routes, this route will operate over a distance of 9.012 kilometres, has an Origin demand – destination of more than 124.388 annual passengers during the 2018 and grew the 20.25% with an average cost of $460.24 dollars per way.
In December they will only be 3 airlines operating in this market and all of Spanish origin that will account for a total of up to 19 weekly frequencies in high season of the European summer.
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