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The Quito airport advances towards the recovery of air traffic in a sustained manner since the resumption of commercial operations.
After the reactivation of commercial flights from the 1 last june, where it gave way to regular national and international operations, Mariscal Sucre advances in what will be a long recovery process that according THERE IT IS, I could drink 4 or more years subject to various factors, especially, cheap.
Quito airport: Recovery
Regarding domestic flights, during the months of June and July, three airlines (Avianca, Latam and Aeroregional) offered connections with six destinations within the country (Guayaquil, Cuenca, Manta, Store, Coca and Santa Rosa); for august, three additional destinations added (Esmeraldas, Saint Christopher and Baltra).
International airlines grew from three in June with three destinations (amsterdam, Miami y Houston), to six in July with five destinations (Madrid and Fort Lauderdale joined) and nine in August with seven destinations (Mexico City and Panama were incorporated, although only for connections).
Andrew O’Brian, President and CEO of Corporación Quiport, explained that resuming operations on 1 June allowed us to gain fundamental time for the reactivation of connectivity.
“Of the airports that closed in Latin America due to the health emergency, Quito airport was the first to resume national and international flights, implementing strict health protection measures and applying the protocols established by the Emergency Operations Committee; at that moment, The entire region remained expectant about what was happening in Quito”, explained the senior executive.
In the first month of the restart, they mobilized 20 thousand passengers, this number doubled to 42 thousand passengers in July and in August we transported more than 48 thousand passengers. In the whole period, between 1 June and the 24 of September, we already exceeded 166 thousand passengers. However, these numbers are far from those registered before the health emergency and represent the 10% of those registered in the same month of 2019.
For December, according to Quiport projections, at the Quito airport will operate 13 airlines arriving at 10 international destinations. On 2019 they flew 16 airlines to 18 international destinations.
charge recovers
April was the worst month for cargo exports through the Quito airport. The fall was from 33.5% compared to the same month of 2019. Since then the recovery has been constant: in the comparison of May the drop was 9%, in June it was 4.7% and by July a growth of 1.8% compared to the same month of 2019 and in August the increase was 10.1%.
The main export product by air from Quito are flowers, a productive activity that employs thousands of people in the north central highlands of the country.
It should be remembered that cargo operations at the capital's airport were not suspended at any time since the start of the health emergency, which allowed to maintain the activities of the floricultures and also the airport was the point of entry of medicines, medical supplies and material for Covid tests.
safe operation
The 27 August, the Quito International Airport obtained the Sanitary Accreditation of Airports (AHA, for its acronym in English) Awarded by Airports Council International (ACI, for its acronym in English). The Sanitary Accreditation of Airports (AHA) of ACI is based on the recommendations of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (OACI) to establish common sanitary measures and is aligned with ACI best practices, as well as with the aviation security protocol developed by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
The aspects evaluated in the program include cleaning and disinfection, physical distancing (when feasible and practical), airport staff protection, physical distribution, passenger communication and passenger facilities.
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