The North American Airline Eastern Airlines will make the route from Montevideo to Miami from June and, in this way, Uruguay will resume direct connection to the United States following American Airlines’ decision to suspend flights, they informed The observer government sources.
Eastern Airlines has already started selling $ 317 tickets and deals online bi-weekly frequencies, on Thursdays and Sundays, as stated on their website.
American Airlines flies to Miami until the end of March Y The route is planned to resume in December, as reported by the company.
As a result, Uruguay will not have direct flights to the United States in April and May, although connections to that country can be made with a stopover in Panama, via the Copa airline.
When American Airlines decided to suspend its flights, the government began talks to try and resume that route. This airline, which until now was not active in Uruguay, had operated charter flights. The National Directorate of Civil Aviation and Infrastructure (Dinacia) authorized the company to operate from Uruguay.
From June they will operate from Carrasco Airport, next to Eastern, the airline Copa, Latam, Avianca, Iberia and Air Europa
From the government, in turn, have contact with four other airlines looking to improve the Uruguayan air connection, he learned The observer from aviation industry sources. Discussions with companies cover topics related to vaccines, tourism and the country’s attractions.
In government they are “open to dialogue” and an opportunity that of the government It is with good eyes to complete the operation from Montevideo of the airline Qatar Airways, as reported The observer in November. The opportunity has been working for several weeks by the authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Transport and Works, the Dinacia and the Air Force, as, in addition to the commercial arm, it also includes defense aspects that have yet to be finalized. from the year 2016.
The negotiations with this airline they are “hermetic”although there is a “good relationship” between the aviation authorities of both countries.
One of the trips that President Luis Lacalle Pou has planned this year is an official visit to Qatar, as reported by Secretary of State Francisco Bustillo in February.
But connectivity from Montevideo dropped at the end of January. Uruguayan airline Amaszonas announced the closure of its passenger shipping operations and initiated a “reinvention process,” the company said in a statement.
In early December, the company had decided to suspend flights to Asunción and San Pablo, pending the opening of the borders. During the health emergency, Amaszonas was in charge of repatriation flights from the Brazilian city.
Eastern Airlines is a company originally founded in 1926 and in 1930 it became one of the four major airlines in the United States, a category it maintained for decades to come. The company went bankrupt in 1991 and resumed operations in 2007.
When it went bankrupt, it had been operating for 62 years, but in recent years managers have been trying to save that crisis, El País de Madrid reported in 1991. Over the past two years, the airline had filed for bankruptcy in a last-ditch effort to save its situation.