The American airline Eastern Airlines will make the route from Montevideo to Miami starting in June and, in this way, Uruguay will resume direct connection with the United States following the decision of American Airlines to suspend flights, they reported to the Observer sources of government.
Eastern Airlines has already started selling tickets online for $ 317 and offers two weekly frequencies, On Thursdays and Sundays, according to its website.
American Airlines will fly to Miami until the end of March i it is scheduled to resume the route in December, As reported by the company.
Therefore, Uruguay will not have direct flights to the United States during 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 to resume this route. This airline, which until now did not operate 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, as well as Eastern, the airline Copa, Latam, Avianca, Iberia and Air Europa.
From the government, in turn, they are in contact with four other airlines in search of improving the Uruguayan air connection, he learned the Observer from sources in the aeronautical sector. Issues related to vaccines, tourism and country attractions are on the table in talks with companies.
In government they are “open to dialogue” and an opportunity from the government see with good eyes is to concretize the operation from Montevideo of the airline Qatar Airways, As reported the Observer in November. The opportunity has been worked for several weeks by authorities from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, the Dynasty and the Air Force as it includes, in addition to the commercial branch, aspects of defense that are pending to be specified in 2016.
the negotiations with this airline they are “airtight”, Although there is a “good relationship” between the aeronautical authorities of both countries.
One of the trips that President Luis Lacalle Pou has planned for this year is an official visit to Qatar, As reported by Chancellor Francisco Bustillo in February.
But connectivity from Montevideo was down in late January. Uruguayan airline Amaszonas announced the closure of its passenger transport operations and is beginning a “reinvention process,” the company said in a statement.
In early December, the company had decided to suspend flights to Asuncion 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 became one of the four major airlines in the United States, a category it maintained for the following decades. The company went bankrupt in 1991 and resumed flights in 2007.
When it went bankrupt, it had been in operation for 62 years, but in recent years managers have been trying to save this crisis, El País de Madrid reported in 1991. For the past two years, the airline had resorted to U.S. bankruptcy law in a last-ditch attempt to stabilize its financial situation.