North American airline Eastern Airlines will make the route from Montevideo to Miami in June and in this way Uruguay will resume direct contact with the United States after the decision of American Airlines to suspend flights, they informed Observatory government sources.
Eastern Airlines has already started selling tickets online for $ 317 and offers two weekly frequencies, Thursday and Sunday, as mentioned on their website.
American Airlines will fly to Miami by the end of March Yes is scheduled to resume the route in December, as reported by the company.
Therefore, 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, through the airline Copa.
When American Airlines decided to suspend its flights, the government began talks to try to resume that route. This airline, which until now had not operated in Uruguay, had operated charter flights. The National Directorate of Civil Aviation and Infrastructure (Dinacia) has authorized the company to operate from Uruguay.
From June, they will operate from Carrasco Airport, next to the East, Copa, Latam, Avianca, Iberia and Air Europa.
In turn, from the government are in contact with four other airlines in search of improving the Uruguayan air connection, as he learned Observatory from sources in the aeronautical sector. In conversations with companies, issues related to vaccines, tourism and the country’s attractions are on the table.
The government is “open to dialogue” and an opportunity from the government Welcome to complete the Qatar Airways operation in Montevideo, as reported Observatory in November. The opportunity has been running for several weeks by the authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, Dinacia and the Air Force, as it includes, in addition to the commercial branch, defense issues to be finalized. since 2016.
NEGOTIATIONS with this airline are “hermetic”, although there is a “good relationship” between the aviation authorities in both countries.
One of the trips that President Luis Lacalle Pou planned this year is an official visit to Qatar, as reported by Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo in February.
But connectivity in Montevideo declined in late January. Uruguayan airline Amaszonas has announced the closure of its passenger transport operations and the start of a “reinvention process”, according to the company in a statement.
In early December, the company decided to suspend flights to Asuncion and San Pablo, while “waiting” for the borders to open. During the health emergency, Amaszonas handled repatriation flights from the Brazilian city.
Eastern Airlines is a company originally founded in 1926 and in 1930 became one of the four largest airlines in the United States, a category it maintained for several decades. The company went bankrupt in 1991 and resumed flights in 2007.
When it went bankrupt, it was in business for 62 years, but in recent years managers have tried to save that crisis, El País de Madrid reported in 1991. In the last two years, the airline went bankrupt in a last-ditch attempt. to stabilize its financial situation.