They revoke the operating permit to Ecuacondor

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The National Civil Aviation Council of Ecuador has made the decision to revoke the operating permit to Ecuacondor, which would end this project. Reference photo Bene Riobó

For the first time we talk about this company 24 march 2022 and almost three years later and after there has not been much progress or news in recent times, everything indicates that it will be another of the airlines in process that will never take off.

Ecuacondor He even had his first two planes reserved CRJ-200 with Ecuadorian registration plates HC-CXY and HC-CXZ, There was talk that they would also incorporate CRJ-900 models and they also had a charter operation permit granted in December 2022, which was also revoked on 26 last february.

Ecuacondor is left without an operating permit

The National Civil Aviation Council of Ecuador has revoked the operating permit of the airline Aerolínea Cóndor Ecuatoriano Ecuacondor S.A. by agreement no. 024/2022, issued 6 June 2022. The decision, taken 26 February 2025 and recently communicated, It is based on non-compliance with the regulations established in the Regulation of Operating Permits for the Provision of Commercial Air Transport Services., specifically in the literals b) y j) of the article 55.

• b) If the operator does not provide a guarantee in the established amounts or does not replace it within the deadlines established by regulation, and,
• j) If the technical procedures before the General Directorate of Civil Aviation are not completed within the maximum period established in the relevant technical regulation

Ecuacondor, which intended to offer public air transport services, domestic, regular, passenger, cargo and mail, in combined modality, now faces revocation of his permit with Agreement No. 024/2022 from 06 June 2022, with which it sought to operate these domestic routes:

• • GUAYAQUIL—CUENCA—GUAYAQUIL, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • GUAYAQUIL—LOJA—GUAYAQUIL, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • GUAYAQUIL— ESMERALDAS — GUAYAQUIL, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • GUAYAQUIL—QUITO—GUAYAQUIL, until 52 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — BASIN — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — LOJA — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — SANTA ROSA — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — COCA — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO- NEW STORE (Sour Lake) – QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — ESMERALDAS — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — MANTA — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — MACAS — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.
  • QUITO — TULCÁN — QUITO, until 14 weekly frequencies.

the deal, signed in Quito, orders notification to the airline and the General Directorate of Civil Aviation for the relevant legal procedures. What's more, It is informed to Ecuacondor about your right to file any judicial appeals you consider necessary against this decision, In the event that the company was interested in resuming the process fulfilling the legal requirements.

Everything indicates that after almost 3 years of starting the process, having advertised in the media and social networks the start of flights with several dates that were never met, We see the end of this project, of course it is, could change based on the legal procedures that the company may file.

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