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the mexican airline Viva Aerobus suspends its flights on direct routes between Cancún and Quito since the first quarter of 2024. Photo Diogo Ricardo
Was the 16 June 2023 that this airline landed in Quito for the first time directly from Cancún, at that time with three weekly frequencies and competing head-to-head with Avianca Ecuador which also flew three times a week between both cities.
Weeks passed, and the Ecuadorian subsidiary of Avianca was the first to adjust your offer between Quito and Cancun, suspending its flights and announcing that this route will operate only seasonally in high travel seasons to vacation destinations in the mountains such as carnival and between June and August, but now Viva Aerobus It also adds to the changes in this route.
Viva Aerobus suspends flights to Quito
The airline's brand new route in South America already has a closing date as can be seen in the airline's own reservation system. The last flight will take place next 8 of January of 2024.
A) Yes, after almost seven months of operation, which was one of the new direct routes inaugurated from Quito during this year together with Medellin and New York, will see take off Viva Aerobus for the last time the 9 from January, leaving the route suspended until further notice.
¿A qué se debe la suspensión? Unofficially, It was known that this decision comes from the public problems that Pratt and Whitney engines are having worldwide., situation that is forcing airlines to ground more than 350 aircraft in different parts of the globe. These engines are what propel the Airbus A320neo and A321neo from Viva Aerobus (and many other airlines).
in july 2023, RTX Corp, matrix de Pratt & Whitney, announced that some engines built for the twin-engine Airbus A320neo between 2015 and 2021, should be inspected for microcracks. La empresa detectó una «rara condición» en el polvo del metal de los motores, which could cause fatigue of the high pressure turbine discs.
In this situation, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from USA issued an airworthiness directive to conduct ultrasonic inspection of high-pressure turbine discs, first and second stage, of all affected engines.
Viva Aerobus has had to ground several of its aircraft equipped with these engines (have 48 neo version airplanes in your fleet), which is generating adjustments in its entire route network and will even have to lease planes to other airlines to supply its operations and see the effects reduced., There comes the cut in the route to Quito.
It's supposed to, if a better operational outlook is presented for the airline, it can resume its flights to Quito for the second quarter of 2024. Ecuador is again connected only with Aeromexico on your route Mexico City – Quito with a daily flight on airplanes Boeing 737-800 and MAX.
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It is a great disadvantage that Prat and Whitney engines have these types of problems , I think it would have been ,more feasible to use V2500 or CFM56-6 engines than the A320 airbus before the Neo version should be used , because this type of engine has not created this type of problems in generating dust between stages (apart from the microcracks generated between the high pressure stages, in the turbine section. If a true, fairly detailed inspection should really be carried out to avoid possible accidents that affect the airline., don't object, verify MEL minimum equipment manuals (Mínimum Equiment List) that pilots carry in the cockpit to verify safety conditions. (no go, if go ) as observation details for the maintenance area.
Great contribution Ulysses, thanks for sharing.
What a shame, I hope it's just an engine problem..
I traveled on Aeromexico to Mexico City from Quito and the plane was full both the way there and the return.
It would also be good for air france to return to Ecuador or Level
If Air France returns, I will be very happy.