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El universo; New cuencana airline expects aircraft to start service

12 years ago

New cuencana airline expects aircraft to start service
SANDRA OCHOA | BASIN

(Translated with BING! from http://www.eluniverso.com/2012/03/16/1/1447/nueva-aerolinea-cuencana-espera-aviones-iniciar-servicio.html)

One of the three planes that will begin its activities the company Cuencanas air lines (LAC), will enter the airport Mariscal La Mar in the city of Cuenca in the coming days, said Carlos Torres, one of the three partners of this new venture.

Although it was envisaged that the new airline operations start in mid March, the date was postponed until that the supplier of the aircraft to determine the delivery date.

With the three aircraft, a Bombardier CRJ 700, with capacity for 70 people and conditions for airports in height as Cuenca, Quito and Loja, among which there will be the new operations; and two Embraer 145 with capacity for 50 passengers, LAC will operate 12 frequencies approved by the Civil Aviation Authority.

Torres, who traveled this week along with his brother Hugo Astudillo and partners Luis Astudillo to Miami to return to Ecuador with the Bombardier CRJ700, said that the airline intends to open new frequencies from this city towards the East, the North Coast and the Sierra Center of the country.

LAC expected to maintain routes between Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca, but they will increase air service from Loja to Macas; other routes will have connections to small towns as a destination Salinas, Lago Agrio, Latacunga and blanket, to avoid that the user wait several hours, he added.

According to the businessman, the investment to participate in the domestic air market was $ 30 million. A portion of this amount corresponds to capital investors and another percentage was achieved with a credit of the national Finance Corporation (CFN).

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