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The main Panamanian airline, Copa Airlines, also seeks to increase its flight frequencies from City of Panama toward Quito.
The numbers continue to improve and this is reflected in the country's airports with more people traveling, whether they are leaving or arriving., are positive signs of the long-awaited recovery of the airline industry.
These good signs can also be seen in the increase in frequencies, such as the case of Copa Airlines now, which continues to recover its operation in Ecuador and that it even already has more flights than before the pandemic, primarily driven by connecting flights to USA.
More flights from Copa to Quito
The 30 last may, The airline began the process to modify the operating permit for the provision of air transport services., public, international, regular, passenger, cargo and mail, in combined form, renewed by the National Civil Aviation Council through Agreement No.. 010/2021 from 19 april 2021.
The modification consists of the following: increase 7 frequencies on the route:
- PANAMA CITY – QUITO – PANAMA CITY, up to forty-two (42) weekly frequencies;
With this increase, the airline on demand, you can increase your frequencies up to 6 daily operations, thus also matching the offer that Copa Airlines already maintains in force and in operation to and from the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in the city of Guayaquil, as i announced in last february.
Pointing to a recovery in demand also from Quito, the airline will operate these flights with Boeing aircraft 737-800 (configured for 160 passengers in two classes) and the biggest Boeing 737 MAX (configured for 166 passengers in three classes) varying equipment according to demand and operational needs.
Let us remember that this route is served only by Copa Airlines and the last time that another company also operated between both countries was Tame in the year 2013 after operating for three years both from Quito and from Guayaquil.
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I agree with you Nicholas. Cuenca possibly needs another airport due to its location and limitations, it ends up being the same thing that happened to Quito with its old airport.. I heard that they would build a new one but I haven't heard anything yet, do you know anything about it? Because if so, Copa Airlines would be one of the first international airlines to operate.
Cuenca would have a new airport in a few years, at least 20 according to the master plan i once saw or even longer.
In agreement since the demand does not warrant it today and in the future it still has capacity for more traffic. I said build another airport for security, let's remember that there have been accidents for decades with Vickers Viscount, a boeing 737-200 of TAME and recently with ERJ-190 that luckily did not go beyond the security zone and there were no human losses. The need for a new airport is independent of the demand for security, to Quito for both reasons it was decided to build another. In addition, Cuenca could receive larger aircraft such as Boeing 737 Max 8/9/10 of Copa Airlines for example as part of this news.
Totally agree that Cuenca needs another airport, but the security issue is not necessarily on the financial issue. Any investment project as large as a new airport would require justifying its profitability with passenger demand.. In the case of Quito, two factors were added, security as you say, but the demand was at its peak and the capacity of the terminal was not enough for more, what he gave in numbers as feasible construction.
If true. If we were a country with more financial resources, we could build an airport in Cuenca more quickly..
It is justly positive, Nicolás, that Copa Airlines continues betting on increasing frequencies to Quito, as Guayaquil already has, and that means that the Ecuadorian economy is growing..
On the other hand, Manta and Cuenca can be direct destinations in the future., it's good that they look apart from the Boeing 737-800, the beautiful boeing 737 Max 8 and 9, and one day we will see the variant 10.
Blanket is practically a fact, it's a matter of time. Many things must happen for Cuenca, how to improve your infrastructure.
We wait for the manabas that are served to us frequently from Manta to Panama for us it is annoying , expensive and dangerous to travel to take a flight to Guayaquil to go to the US , with a COPA flight we are taken for granted, hopefully and not be left alone in announcing and the frequency is accelerated. Manta and Panama have always been united since the colony.
That route is going to happen sooner or later, but it is necessary for Manta to have all the necessary infrastructure of the case.