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The Quito airport is close to returning to the 5 million passengers per year, figure reached on 2019 before the pandemic.
Were 5.574,019 passengers who passed through the new airport Quito year 2014, this as a record since its inauguration, That this 2023 will add 10 years.
Quito airport recovers passengers
Passenger traffic at Quito's Mariscal Sucre International Airport recorded a healthy recovery in 2022, reaching 4.3 million passengers transported on domestic and international flights, in arrivals and departures. Thus, compared to traffic 2019 -before the covid-19 pandemic-, recovery is 86.4%.
Currently, 15 passenger airlines connect Quito directly with 14 international destinations and 8 destinations within Ecuador, making the city the best connected in the country by air.
For 2023 passenger traffic is expected to reach 2019 and, from there, get back on the path of growth. Ramon Miro, President and CEO of Corporación Quiport, the company responsible for the management and development of the Mariscal Sucre International Airport, ensures that:
"In 2023 we will have important news for the city's connectivity. The pandemic hit air transport very hard, “But it forced a rethinking of the sector and opened very important opportunities that we are currently exploring and realizing”.
What concerns to load, the figures of 2022 are even more encouraging. Between January and December, they transported 290.677 metric tons of cargo, setting an absolute record for the airport Marshal Sucre. of this volume, 239.109 metric tons correspond to export cargo, also a record in that area.
When comparing the load figures of 2022 with those of 2019, It is evident that there has been a growth of 19.4% in the total cargo transported, while in export cargo the growth is 17.9%.
Starting the news of this 2023, we can anticipate the start of flights Avianca from Quito to Medellín with 4 initial frequencies, destination that will start from 28 next March.
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In a previous note you committed to publishing passenger data from the country's airports during 2022
You can indicate information about the Guayaquil airport?
I still don't have all the data, I usually publish that in March.