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During the 2023 recovered and actually, the air market for flights grew between Spain and Ecuador, obtaining figures on the 400 thousand passengers per year.
Despite the country's challenges in terms of security and internal economic factors, the air market with one of our most important destinations abroad is still in full recovery, even, surpassing pre-pandemic figures.
Today, We only have flights to/from Madrid, being that one route from Barcelona, Spain would potentially have more than 80 thousand travelers annually according to the “Barcelona Air Route Development Committee” with data from 2019, which makes our country the second most attractive market since El Pratt that does not have direct flights.
Demand between Spain and Ecuador grows
After passing the pandemic, everything that this implied and despite the requirement of show Schengen that we require Ecuadorians, the air market is growing. Currently operating with only two airlines, The statistics are positive and demonstrate how attractive we are with growth potential with routes towards Europe usually.
Today, the market between Spain and Ecuador is served by 15 weekly frequencies and from July they will increase to 17, This implies a seating offer of more than 4,790 weekly seats per track operated by Air Europa e Iberia.
Statistics 2023:
Let's now fully review the general statistics left by the 2023 for flights between both countries:
| QUITO/MARISCAL SUCRE | 228,846 |
| GUAYAQUIL/JJO | 177,241 |
| Total | 406,087 |
If we compare with the year 2022, when the total number of passengers transported in this market was 356.659, still below 2019, Last year there was a growth of 49,428 more passengers using air service.
Regarding traffic by airline, The two companies operating transported the following number of travelers:
| Airline | passengers |
| Air Europa | 118.431 |
| Iberia | 287.653 |
All these thousands of passengers were transported on planes Boeing 787, Airbus A330 and Airbus A350, totaling this number of operations to and from our country:
| Operations | 1399 |
| Air Europa | 437 |
| Iberia | 962 |
Statistics 2019
For him 2019, The market was presented in the following way:
| GUAYAQUIL/SIMON BOLIVAR | 151,856 |
| QUITO/MARISCAL SUCRE | 245,189 |
| Total | 397,045 |
In this way, a positive market recovery is confirmed between Spain and Ecuador, even managing to transport 9,042 more passengers during the 2023, than before the pandemic.
All this is also reflected in the permanent increase in flights of the only two airlines operating direct flights between both markets., where Air Europa maintains 5 weekly frequencies on the Madrid route – Quito – Guayaquil – Madrid e Iberia work with 7 weekly flights on the Madrid route – Quito – Madrid and 5 weekly frequencies since July on the Madrid route – Guayaquil – Madrid.
It should be noted that there is an order in Spain increase in frequencies to our country by an airline not yet identified, so the supply could increase again, all thanks to these positive numbers (I will update this later).
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Hello Nicolás, do you know if they are going to open routes with Air France or Lufthansa as they did before? ? By the way, your website appears translated to me but I cannot configure it only for Spanish
Hi JD., For now there are no plans for any of those airlines to return to Ecuador, but I will let you know if there is any news. About the translated page, very rare, it should come out in english
To the Iberia and Air Europa flights we must add the Avianca flights via Bogota, which also carry many more passengers and KLM..
I imagine that the airline you are referring to is Level, I hope it is clear..
Not really, Only direct flights between both countries are taken into account here., definitely, Traffic is even greater if you take connecting flights, which are endless options..