More of 5 million passengers through Quito Airport in 2019

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were more than 5 million passengers who passed through the Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport throughout the year 2019.

After a great year for the main airport in Ecuador, where the historic return of Air France plus the flights Air Canada Rouge, I arrive More Ultra, Interjet and other airlines increased destinations and frequencies, it's time to review what happened in terms of statistics.

After having crossed the barrier of the 5 million annual passengers in what was the 2018 at Quito Airport, last year there were several challenges for the local airline industry and especially for the airport located in Tababela, having during the 2019 dropped the number of passengers:

In the analyzed year, there was a drop in traffic 4%, generated by influential factors such as the economic news of the country, the closure of the Tame route between Quito and New York, Lima and Bogota plus all the reduction of your domestic frequencies and the October unemployment as actors of this low.

Statistics 2019

The upward trend following the 2018 was maintained during the months of January, February and March, while from April the downward trend began.

comparatively, during the 2019 they were transported 33.852 fewer passengers on international flights and 156.570 fewer domestic passengers, being the main decelerating factor the internal flights in Ecuador.

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With the arrival of new airlines, an interesting growth was expected, but without any doubt, the mentioned factors affected the expected projections, so the challenge for this 2020 will also be important.

It is also important due to the complications that come from the front, such as the coronavirus and all the negative challenges they will bring to the travel industry, tourism and world economy. overcome this crisis, the objective of recovering the market that may be lost in international and domestic flights will come.

The support must go through a tourism plan as a country integral for in this way be able to keep the new airlines that have arrived and those that have increased flights.

*Source DGCA.

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