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the spanish airline Iberia returned to Guayaquil flying direct from Madrid with 4 weekly frequencies in Airbus A330 aircraft.
A great year for José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport and also for Ecuador. more flights, more airlines and more tourists in a historic year for our aviation.
After leaving the triangulation on the Madrid route – Quito – guayaquil the year 2017 and to operate a direct daily flight between Madrid and Quito, Iberia returns to Guayaquil for the first time in history directly.
Without any intermediate scale, Iberia opera 4 weekly direct flights from Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suárez Airport to José Joaquín de Olmedo on Mondays, Wednesday, Fridays and Sundays on Airbus A330 planes.
The return
This is how the airline's plans to return to Guayaquil gradually became known., as published in this space:
- The 9 May 2019 was officially known return of Iberia to Guayaquil from Madrid with 4 weekly flights.
- Subsequently, the 19 May 2019 the airline started sale of tickets for this new route which for the first time would operate regularly directly between both destinations.
- Finally, for him 21 June 2019 Iberia started the route request process before the aeronautical authority of Ecuador in order to operate this route.
Iberia returned to Guayaquil
With promotional prices that were found from $450 dollars round trip between both cities, last 13 from December to 2019 the airline returned to Guayaquil, the same day that LATAM Ecuador suspended this route.
For this first and expected return, flight IBE-6460 was operated by the Airbus A330-202 registration EC-MMG, serial number MSN1747, which has just 3 years since its first new factory flight with Iberia. With a capacity to 288 passengers divided into 19 in Business Class and 269 in Economy Class, this aircraft is powered by 2 CF6-80E1A4 engines and its name is Santiago de Chile.
For this flight it was not possible to obtain occupancy data, also given the limited media impact that was made around this return to Guayaquil, where, for example, the traditional water arch upon arrival.
This new connection will operate at the following published times:
- Flight IB-6461 takes off from Madrid at 12:20 hours to land in Guayaquil at 18:10 hours with a duration of 11 hours and 50 direct flight minutes.
- Flight IB-6460 takes off back from Guayaquil at 20:45 hours and lands the next day in Madrid for the 13:55 hours after 11 hours and 10 direct flight minutes.
Welcome back to Guayaquil!
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