the airíMexican snow Viva Aerobus suspends its flights on direct routes between Delún and Quito since the first quarter of 2024. Photo Diogo Ricardo
Was the 16 June 2023 What is Aerol?ínea landed on Quito for the first time directly from Delún, at that time with three weekly frequencies and competing head-to-head with Avianca Ecuador that alsoén 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 Cancún, suspending its flights and announcing that this route will operateá úOnly 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 addsén to changes in this route.
Viva Aerobus suspends flights to Quito
The brand new airline routeínea in South AméRica already has a certain closing dateún can be seen in the airline's own reservation systemínea. The úlast flight will take placeá el próximo 8 of January of 2024.
Así, tras casi siete meses de operationón, which was one of the new direct routes inaugurated from Quito during this toñor together with Averageín and New York, verá take off to Viva Aerobus for úlast time the 9 from January, leaving the route suspended until further notice.
¿To whaté suspension is dueón? Unofficially, metó that this decisionón comes from the hand of the púwar problems that Pratt and Whitney engines are facing.án having globally, the situationówhat isá forcing the aerosolsíYou want to leave me on the groundás de 350 aircraft in different parts of the globe. These engines are what propel the Airbus A320neo and A321neo from Viva Aerobus (and many other aerosolsídenies).
in july 2023, RTX Corp, matrix de Pratt & Whitney, announcementó that some engines built for the twin-engine Airbus A320neo between 2015 and 2021, debíto be inspected for microcracks. The company detectedó a “rare conditionón” in the metal dust of the engines, what couldíto cause fatigue of the high pressure turbine discsón.
Given this situationón, la Administrationón Federal Aviationón (FAA) from USA treesó an airworthiness directive to carry out an inspectionón ultrasóunique high pressure turbine discsón, first and second stage, of all affected engines.
Viva Aerobus has had to ground several of its aircraft equipped with these engines (have 48 version planesón neo in your fleet), what isá generating adjustments throughout your route network and will even haveá than leasing planes to other airlinesílines to supply their operations and see the effects reduced, ahí the cut enters the route to Quito.
It's supposed to, if a better operational outlook is presented for the airlineínea, it can resume its flights to Quito for the second quarter of 2024. Ecuador is connected again úonly with Aeroméxico on your route City of México – 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.