LATAM Peru seeks more flights in Ecuador

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the subsidiary LATAM Peru began the process before the aeronautical authority in Ecuador looking for more flights to Quito and Guayaquil, with extension up to Miami.

Recently, the Peruvian subsidiary of LATAM Group initiated a procedure before the General Directorate of Civil Aviation with the objective of including a new route to its current operating permit. Let us remember at this point that LATAM Peru already operates in Ecuador toward Quito and Guayaquil, both from their hub in the Jorge Chavez Airport that serves the city of Lima.

It should be noted that both LATAM Ecuador and LATAM Peru They are in charge of the frequencies between our country and Peru, but the Peruvian subsidiary is the largest operator on these flights at the moment.

LATAM Peru requests more flights to Ecuador

With date 20 November 2023, via your legal representative in Ecuador, The LATAM Peru airline requested to modify its Operating Permit for the provision of air transportation service, public, international, regular, passenger cargo and mail, in combined form renewed and modified by the National Civil Aviation Council with Agreement No. 023/2021 from 28 October 2021, in order to include the following route:

• LIMA – QUITO y/o GUAYAQUIL – MIAMI y VV, up to seven weekly frequencies with rights of up to fifth freedoms.

As we can see, The airline seeks to include among its possible routes to our country, the possibility of extending your flights until Miami with rights of up to fifth freedoms of the air, plus a potential increase in frequencies towards Quito and / or Guayaquil.

But, ¿qué implica esta solicitud? First we must indicate, as always, that a route request, as we have seen in many other cases, It does not mean that you will have surgery, but it does allow us to know the airline's plans. Too, we could speculate the following alternatives to this request:

• Faced with contingencies in the operation of LATAM Ecuador, the sister subsidiary from Peru could operate the Quito route – Miami,
• LATAM Peru could initially operate a potential new route between Guayaquil – Miami,
• or is it a way to mark presence in the market between Lima and Ecuador in the face of the entry of new competitors such as the case of JetSmart.

For now, solo son ideas, so we will have to wait to see the next play of LATAM in Ecuador with this or other orders that may be given later. We will inform…

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