How difficult it is to get to Quito airport!

Today we will talk about transport options from and Quito International Airport and whyé I consider that it is DIFícyl arrive and it is a pending issue for the city.

If you are a traveler común like me, You may not always have a car or budget to pay a taxi until Quito airport and the options «low cost» They are very básic, reduced and unreliable.

many sayán, ¿para qué They moved the airport so far if you are beforeáwe are a 15 minutes? That is past and the city needed a new airport, con más space and a track más long and safe to have más distant and grow in tourism, business,etc. The airport isá donde isá, But they have passed 12 años and for my point of view, Transport to airport is still a pending theme to improve.

Arrive or leave Quito airport, It is not so fácil

Mariscal Sucre de Quito airport is wonderful. It is clean, tidy, functional, The processes are clear, You flow and not stress. Its decorationón is another level and therefore, He has won as many international awards as the best in the región in its categoryíA and many M prizesás, and with the expansionón to beá aún better, But there are things that come from the reach of the airport as such and that do not help the general experience of Vieje.

I never forgeté of an experience that I had someños, while landing from Bogotaá next to mí veníTo a very good couple of Japanese, that flying from so far awayíAn arrive ráI ask the Mariot in Quito And they asked me Sí The airport subway leaves them close.

Ojo, This story is real and those who read me makeñThey know that I don't lie. That time passed so many things through my head, First remembering my beautiful trip to Japón from 2019 before pandemic and ahí ALL THE US TRIPé metro, Even from the airports of Haneda and Narita, assumeí that they expected the same. But of course, he touched meó break your bubble and first tell you that there is no subway to the airport and that second, At that time toún was uncertain cuáNDO APRíhim Quito Metro.

¿Whaté I did? He accompanies themñé To the official taxis, I told them to charge youán $25 dóhomes (I assume that that value per hinté I speaké For them, but surely they were $30) and ready they left, I hope your trip has enjoyed, andíthe far Galápaid afterés.

With this introduce usón I want to show that, like city and país We don't look good at foreign tourists (Let's say we are accustomed), leave or get is not fácil o económonkey, Being the main entrance door to Ecuador, dutyíTo be much better.

Unfulfilled promises

You know, I go some 17 años (I think it's more) Reporting to the aviationón of Ecuador and from the world, así that I am very clear in my memory all the transport and road offers that have been offered for the airport and these are some of those I have, If any is missing, They let me know:

• PerfectionéRICH THE METROFéRico from La Carolina to the airport: I remember was in December 2018 that President Moreno announcedó Esa inverseón and it seemed to meó A wonder, since in Carolina alsoéto beíto the meter. have passed almost 7 años and not a post or cable is launched and créI see to beíspectacular.
• ExpansionóN of the Viva Route: This víWhat is más used to the airport, It is worth sayingá made pieces, was inauguratedó Until its current phase in Puembo almost 2 añundress themés of the opening of the new airport and mustíin time afterés expanding in your phase 3 to the round of the mirror and alpachaca connector to reduce between 7 a 10 Minutes of transfer times to the airport. We are already in 2025 And there are no concrete advances Más that an advertisement advertisementóroute no., put tolls and más, But there are no exact dates of Cuáyes, Maybe the necessary extension is madeón.
• The third víA ROUTE ZáMbiza from Redondel de Gualo to the airport: Sure many do not knowíAn of the existence of this project that will haveía más de 13 kilómeters reaching E-35. Unfortunately for him 2018 I hanged myselfó The project despite containingó With studies, plans and más, even a solution was createdón vial at the entrance to Tabacarcen that today is another delay for that semáforum. ¿Whaté notó? They gave priority to the living route and justifyó Not to do it because the government made the collas.
• Partially the Collas route: For aviationón I have great memory, But the collas that we know the Dífrom today, no debió ser así. Its original layout was MáS short since the vía tendríTo one of the bridges MáS long of the PAís (así They said it), But as we see today the layout is another and surely for costs. YesíAn how it was offeredó initially, Surely it was reducedíA In several minutes time to the airport.

¿Cóto get to Quito airport?

Let's review the options we have, To realize that there are not many and in cases máIt is not reliable and less 24/7.

Vehíparticular ass

The opción más lógica, You have your car, You go to the airport and ready. Of course, This implies gas and parking costs, Add everything and go máS Caro that the taxi even secún withántos díThey travel.

Spaghettién, if isás arriving can you lease a car, But those are other considerably high values that is not for everyone and más aún, handle in Ecuador I do not recommend it much: ours señaléethics, respect and víso they are not the best.

Since the inaugurationón, When no habían vías óptimas and took más de 2 hours arrive from Quito What is today, The times have been significantly reduced. When I can go by car, themselvesún the hour and día, I can quietly arrive in alone 35 minutes from La Carolina or less even, But imagíNense if all promises of Vías habraícomplied, These times will be reducedían aún más, doing más friendly move us to travel or see a relative.

Taxi o Uber

many sayán that I complain about $25 dóLares that costs the taxi and a little less an uber, What outside can be máS Caro as in USA which are already exorbitant and that thereá I don't complain, but I knowñThey pray everything must go hand in hand with the economic realityóMica of each país and I'm not saying that what we pay in taxi isé unpayable, But in the absence of better options it becomes an almost obligatory service and by adding it to everything that costs a trip I sí I prefer to spend those $20 In a meal.

Buses públicos

There are two green buses, one coming out from Quitumbe and another coming out from the ríor coca más a gray bus that comes from jailén. Son La Impión máit's cheap: paid $2.45 to the airport if you go out or go to the terminal. I use them very often, no isán evil, But they have many problems.

• Do not meet the output schedulesí that you may have to use two buses to get to the airport, And this is what más I have to do for that little reliability.
• No son cóModes for traveling with luggage being high, have stands and not have a dedicated space for suitcases.
• They are not accessible.
• there will always beá That security risk of going in a P serviceúblico.
• They do not operate all Díace of the week (THE GREEN TO THE Ríor coca operates only from Monday to Friday for example).
• Its schedule is limited and do not operate máSO of the 19 hours.

Of all problems, safety, Failure and limited schedule are the biggest problems that limit its use. If you got to the 8 pm, scrub, You don't have Más to pay a expensive taxi and your budget left.

Private buses as aeroservicios

There is no longer, There are no más. This company breaksó And we lost the other opción that it was quite good in price and haveíto schedules más or less reliable and I say this since in the úlast time their schedules were rare and could notíto ensure that the bus leaves if there was noían más passengers. This service at the beginning of the new airport was a éhuge xito, If you did not arrive with time, loseíAs your space and I had to wait an hour Más al próXimo Bus.

Leaving from the old airport it was a great opción for the north center of Quito that was lostó And there is noñchosen by recoveredón of something similar.

¿Whaté Can be done?

In this point, The municipality of Quito couldíto regulate the service of the B busesúBLICOS TO BE Más reliable, They meet schedules and have better buses, that operate 24/7 or at least until midnight and connecting with the subway, I think that ¿is already asking a lot?.

Since speakingé of the subway, imagíNense a líMetro nea to the valleys of Cumbaya, Tumbaco, Pifo and arrives at the airport, to beíBeautiful, But for now I am satisfied with the telephoneérico, But in this case I do not see that any can be done in the short-median term.

At least a private company appears that puts algún New transport service to airport, I do not see an exit to these limited options, I'm sure if there were Más and better alternatives, helpíA to grow the demand for passengers. Even if they don't believe it, a difficulty of accessing or leaving an airport if considered in the planningón of many travelers and let's not think only of large income, but alsoén in the low cost that we always seek options to reduce costs.

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