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Today we are going to review and analyze the statistics of the movement of passengers that occurred during the year 2022 in the Ecuador airports.
Definitely, the 2022 It was a good year for Ecuadorian aviation in a context of still recovery to reach the numbers from before the pandemic back in the 2019, where in the entire airport system more than 10 million travelers.
During the past year new routes were opened, new airlines arrived and there was a significant recovery of travelers passing through the country's main airports, especially on domestic flights and the statistics show it.
* Information Statistical Bulletin DGAC.
Passenger statistics in Ecuador 2022
To find out how air transport is in Ecuador we will review the statistics for international transport, domestic, regular, not regular in the different airports of Ecuador, we started:
international regular service
Airbus press photo We start a review of the most important news, during the year 2022, regular international service transported 3.786.865 passengers with a variation that represents the 46,48% regarding the year 2021 what happened with 2.585.308 passengers.
| 2022 | |
| entered | 1.840.568 |
| exited | 1.946.297 |
| TOTAL | 3.786.865 |
Of the 3.786.865 passengers, 1.840.568 are entered and 1.946.297 they are leaving the country, siendo DICIEMBRE el mes “pico” para los pasajeros entrados con 185.146; and, AGOSTO el mes “pico” para los pasajeros salidos con 197.739 through the airports of Ecuador.
The three international cities with the highest passenger demand were: PANAMA with a participation of 23,92%, BOGOTA with the 18,87% and MIAMI with the 14,86%; and, the complement corresponds to 42,35% of the remaining eighteen cities as destination points, to and from America and Europe, mobilized by airports in Ecuador.
Quito airport
In the year 2022, mobilized a total of 1.829.848 passengers who, if we compare with the year 2021 that were registered 1.198.787 passengers, growth is observed 52,64%. The passengers entering Quito were 915.574 while they were recorded 914.274 departing passengers.
Guayaquil airport
At 2022 mobilized a total of 1.957.017 passengers in regular air service; with a growth of 41,15% regarding the year 2021 that were registered 1.386.521. The passengers entered through the Guayaquil airport were 924.994 while those who left were 1.032.023 passengers, for regular air service.
International non-scheduled service
In our country the NON-REGULAR AIR SERVICE, during the year 2022, registered a total movement of 40.980 passengers, of which 23.687 were transported by Quito airport (57,80%), 16.931 passengers did it through the Guayaquil airport (41,32%); 217 passengers left from the MANTA airport (0,53%) and 145 passengers left from the SANTA ROSA airport (0,35%).
It should be noted that the traffic for this service showed a growth of 15,70% with respect to the year 2021 when it was posted 35.419 passengers.
domestic regular service
In the year 2022 they were transported 2.686.729 passengers. If it relates to the year 2021 in which they mobilized 1.249.489, growth is observed 115,03%. At the Quito airport, passenger traffic shows a growth of 119,95% both incoming and outgoing passengers. At the Guayaquil airport, passenger traffic shows a growth of 111,19%, both incoming and outgoing passengers.
The three routes with the highest passenger demand in the year 2022 were: QUITO-GUAYAQUILQUITO with 1.186.790, QUITO-GUAYAQUIL-BALTRA-GUAYAQUIL-QUITO with 457.024 and QUITO-CUENCA-QUITO with 386.669, participation is from 44,17%, 17,01% and 14,39% respectively; while, the other routes together represent the 24.43% of national passenger transport, where the majority of routes present growth with respect to the year 2021.
Domestic non-regular service
In the year 2022 they were transported 106.715 passengers, in relation to the year 2021 that was transported 56.090 presents a growth of 90,26%.
general aviation
In the year 2022 General Aviation in our country carried out 80.539 flights, value that, if we relate it to the previous year they were registered 75.828 operations, reflects a growth of 6,21%.
Total passengers transported Ecuador
More of 6.5 million passengers used the service of the Ecuadorian airport network during the 2021, getting even closer to what was the 2019:
| Regular and non-regular domestic | 2.793.444 |
| Regular and non-regular international | 3.827.845 |
| TOTAL | 6.621.289 |
In this way, during the 2022 be mobilizing 6.621.289 passengers throughout the country in the different types of air service, which represents a growth of 68.63% compared to the 2021 where they mobilized 3.926.306 Travellers.
If you want to fully compare the data with the 2021, I share this information:
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To what do you attribute that Guayaquil has mobilized more passengers internationally considering that Quito has more airlines and frequencies abroad ?
JIMMY
just to that, Guayaquil has fewer international destinations, therefore fewer airlines, recovered these flights in full faster, generating greater dynamism and transporting more passengers through that airport than Quito, that even still does not recover all the routes it had before the pandemic.