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Avianca Ecuador announced the upcoming start of direct flights between Quito and New York, route that will be operated with aircraft Airbus A320neo.
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Finally, and after some more 4 years, the Quito airport You will be directly connected to New York, This being one of the most requested routes by travelers (including readers of this blog).
Hand in hand with Avianca Ecuador, these flights will once again be part of the airport schedule, operating since the first week of June 2023.
Avianca will fly between Quito and New York, straight
In airplanes Airbus A320neo configured for 180 passengers in a single class (available chairs Premium Economy) the airline will start its flights next 1 June this year, thus marked the recovery of a lost route in 2019.
Making available to users more than 7.000 monthly seats, being also, the only airline that currently flies directly between both airports.
Frequencies
Initially, this route will operate with 5 weekly frequencies (Thursday, Friday, Saturdays, sundays and tuesdays) and from 4 from September flights will increase to 6 frequencies per week (one daily flight except on Wednesdays).
Schedules
Regarding the hours, this new route of Avianca Ecuador will work as follows:
- Flight 2K7396 takes off from Quito at 17:00 hours and lands in New York at 00:10 hours with a duration of 6 hours and 10 minutes.
- Flight 2K7397 takes off from New York at 1:30 hours and lands back in Quito at 06:40 hours with a duration of 6 hours and 10 minutes.
As we previously indicated, these flights will be operated with A320neo, which are expected to arrive in Ecuador for this and other routes in the following months, prior to the start of flights.
Price
The published rate and already on sale on the airline's website are the following:
- From $505 round trip included Taxes and fees.
- Rate includes only personal item.
with these flights, Avianca Ecuador will operate (since September) 12 weekly frequencies between Guayaquil and Quito toward New York, siendo la principal aerolínea en número de frecuencias operativas hacia la «Gran manzana».
Flights between Quito and New York return
Direct flights between Quito and New York first started the 1 march 2017 by Tame EP, at that moment covering the route with his Airbus A330 HC-COH. Subsequently, after low profitability due to high operating costs and within a process of internal restructuring of the state airline, what time after would be liquidated, Tame stopped flying between both cities on 31 of January of 2019.
This connection is one of the most popular and requested air routes between North and South America.. The distance between both cities is approximately 2.500 nautical miles, which means a trip around 7 hours in direct flight, that are now resumed thanks to the initiative of Avianca with its Ecuadorian subsidiary.
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Excellent initiative from Avianca , with a very versatile aircraft like the A320NEO. They are wished and predicted an excellent response from the market.
I also think it will be a great route.
Good Morning.
We demand the opening of flights from Ecuador to Holguín Cuba.
to be able to travel.
hello velma, Let's hope there will be those flights soon.