For the month of June, the airline Copa Airlines announced three new routes to and from the Uruguay among which are two cities in the United States and one in Ecuador, increasingly achieving that Uruguayans can access international destinations with fewer stops.
Among the destinations are the cities of Baltimore and Austin in USA and the city of Blanket in Ecuador. The routes will begin from June of this year with the aim of “continuing to be connected, generating business, uniting cultures and promoting the economic development of the cities and regions that are connected,” according to the official statement from the airline.
The flights to Austin, in the state of Texas in the United States, will begin from July 6th with a frequency of 4 weekly flights. To the city of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, the flights will also have a frequency of four per week and will begin on June 28th. Lastly, the regional flight to the city of Manta in Ecuador will begin operating from June 27th regularly 3 times a week.
On the other hand, the company confirmed that the 3 daily direct flights to Panama from Montevideo will continue to operate and reported that it makes 21 weekly flights from Carrasco Airport, connecting Uruguay with more than 80 destinations from 33 countries in America and the Caribbean.
According to the airline, and in relation to customer behavior since the pandemic, the company confirmed that it is adjusting the number of frequencies depending on public demand. “The route has evolved very positively and the analysis of an increase in frequencies depends on its potential market and business opportunities or the vacation scenario,” said Copa Airlines.
Destinations for Uruguayans grow
This month, Aerolíneas Argentinas announced that it will begin to make direct flights – with a frequency of 3 weekly flights – between the Carrasco International Airport and Ezeiza from April 10, which will allow stopovers without changing terminals, with destinations such as New York, Rome, Cancun, Punta Cana and Havana.
Added to this, by the end of 2022, the Brazilian airline Blue added new direct flights from the Carrasco Airport, Montevideotoward Foz do Iguazu, Florianopolis and recifein Brazilwith the objective of expand air connectivity in Uruguay and other countries in the region.
While ultra low cost airline of Chilean origin, jetSMARTannounced that from the day March 27 of the next year will be operational a new route between Montevideo and the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
Iberia, the Spanish airline, for its part, increased from January 1 of this year to seven weekly frequencies Montevideo-Madridan increase in the daily frequency of flights that was initially scheduled for June of this year and that had to be brought forward due to the growing demand.
Source: Ambito
