Iberia returns to Guayaquil with two weekly flights and different schedules

The Spanish Plus Ultra will return in July with frequencies per season.

With two weekly flights, Iberia will resume its direct operations in Guayaquil starting next May, after fourteen months of having suspended flights through the pandemic.

The Spanish origin airline will start its flights from May 2 on the Madrid-Guayaquil route and from May 4 on the Guayaquil-Madrid road.

Víctor Moneo, sales director of Iberia for Latin AmericaHe indicated that they will begin in May with two weekly flights and in June they hope to have three each week.

The company, which operates since 1968 in Ecuador, has changed the schedules to attract customers, especially those Ecuadorians who arrive in Spain and move to other cities.

Iberia will leave on Tuesdays and Fridays at noon in Guayaquil and will arrive at six in the morning to the Spanish capital.

With a market that is still complicated, the airline tries to attract passengers with low starting rates ranging from 500 dollars in tourist class.

For flights to Guayaquil will wear a planeAirbus 330-200 that has capacity for 288 passengers(19 in business class and 269 in tourist).

Iberiamaintains a plan to buyAir Europa,Globalia airline that operates in Ecuador on the triangular route Madrid-Quito-Guayaquil.

Moneo said at the time the airlines work as competing companies.

Another Spanish line that has plans to resume its operation isPlus Ultra, which also handles a triangular route similar to Air Europa.

“My business was growing and I wanted to scale markets and needed the help of mentors… We wanted to learn how the other markets behaved,” says Zamriver.

This company has scheduled flights for seasons. He will return with two weekly frequencies on Wednesdays and Sundays, from July 3 to September 14. After that, it will have a weekly flight, on Sundays, from September 15 to October 31. From December 15 to January 19 he will return with the two frequencies.

This company has disseminated the rates with which the operation will resume. The Madrid-Quito route will have options from 519 euros ($ 624.48); Madrid-Guayaquil from 559 euros ($ 672.61).

Passengers must verify the sanitary conditions that exist between each country by the pandemic.

The firm has begun that those who buy for these periods may have the possibility of making a first change of dates without penalty collection. After the first change, 200 to 230 euros will be charged, according to the status of the rates