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the spanish airline More Ultra already flies to Quito and Guayaquil from the city of Madrid, route that will initially operate with three weekly frequencies.
On a cold morning in Quito at 05:47 am, arrived at Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport the first regular flight of the Plus Ultra airline from Madrid's Barajar International Airport, thus opening its operations in Ecuador as the third country in Latin America to which it operates and including Quito and Guayaquil there are already four cities to which it flies.
little more than 1 hour after landing in the capital of Ecuadorians, the flight continued on its way to the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport from the city of Guayaquil, thus completing its first day of operations in Ecuador and being the second Spanish airline to offer Madrid triangulation – Quito – Guayaquil along with Air Europa.
Initially, the airline will operate three weekly frequencies on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays and for these flights Plus Ultra will use aircraft of the Airbus A340-300 model, of which it has a total of 4 aircraft, with potential growth of 3 additional aircraft, but from the Airbus A340-600 model up to 2020.
The arrival of Plus Ultra in Quito and Guayaquil
The chronology of the arrival of Plus is quite extensive and we covered it exclusively at each stage in this space dedicated to aviation, as the only specialized Ecuadorian media:
- It all started on 28 of January of 2018 when in Spain the intention was known, of that then unknown Spanish airline, to get frequencies to fly to Ecuador.
- A few weeks later, the 5 march 2018 it was revealed to be the airline Plus Ultra the one that requested the frequencies, which were approved by Spain.
- The 21 of January of 2019, one year after starting the procedures to fly to Ecuador, the airline formalized the start of operations to Ecuador for July of that same year.
- For him 27 of January of 2019 Plus Ultra began selling tickets to Quito and Guayaquil.
- The 6 march 2019 the airline started legal procedures before the aeronautical authority of Ecuador to start flights to the country.
- Finally, the 7 May 2019 the airline got the operating permit to fly from Spain to Ecuador and everything was ready for his arrival in the country.
Plus Ultra landed in Quito and Guayaquil
Ecuador continues to grow in its air traffic, es attractive again for airlines and this is shown by the historic year that has been 2019 for aviation international in the country, although the domestic aviation remains a pending issue. We have never been as connected to the world as today.
Plus Ultra is an airline that operates under the traditional or legacy model, but for this new route it has launched an aggressive price campaign that has been found on its website from just $495 dollars round trip with all taxes and with 3 luggage in the hold at no extra cost, which has allowed him to sell more than 12.000 tickets so far.
At this start of operations, the airline assigned the newest aircraft added to its fleet, the Airbus A340-313X registration EC-NBU, msn serial number 459, which has 17 years since your first flight (operated first for Iberia and Philippine Airlines), is propelled by 4 CFMI CFM56-5C4 engines and has a capacity to 303 passengers in two classes (18 in business and 285 in Economics).
On this first flight, the occupancy of the flight was 279 passengers from Madrid to Quito, of which 106 They continued to Guayaquil. for the return flight, there was an occupation of 184 passengers. The flight as usual was received and dismissed by the traditional water arch.
The schedules published for the three weekly frequencies are as follows:
- Flight PU601 takes off from Madrid at 01:05 am and lands in Quito's Mariscal Sucre at 05:35 am behind 11 hours and 30 direct flight minutes.
- Maintaining flight number PU601, takes off from Quito at 07:35 am and lands in Guayaquil at 08:30 am behind 55 flight minutes.
- On the way back to Madrid, flight PU602 takes off from Guayaquil at 10:30 am and lands back at its base in Madrid at 04:50 am, with a flight duration of 11 hours and 20 minutes.
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