The first flight will arrive in Baltra with 138 passengers.
With the operation of commercial flights and compliance with biosafety regulations, Galapagos resumes its tourist activity.
More than four months have passed without the islands receiving visitors and this Monday, August 3, the first Latam flight arriving in Quito with 138 passengers will arrive at this place.
As part of the new normal, the airline will make two flights per week from Quito and Guayaquil to Baltra.
Édgar Andrade, commercial manager of Latam, clarified that they will go from less to more and that frequencies will grow according to demand.
Avianca will resume operations on August 9 with a Sunday flight sandwiched between islands.
María Beatriz González, commercial manager of Avianca in Ecuador, indicated that four flights to transport cargo and passengers would operate in August.
After this difficult moment that the archipelago has passed due to the pandemic generated by Covid-19, operators recognize that the reactivation will be slow, with little hotel occupancy in this month of August, which is part of the high season.
For Andrés Ordóñez, executive director of the Galapagos Chamber of Tourism, the fact of activating the flights is already somewhat encouraging.
The manager clarified that this month a little more than 1,000 passengers could arrive, which is less than the average number of visitors arriving on the islands.
He added that the establishments are ready to serve tourists with due biosecurity protocols.
One of the requirements for tourists to visit the archipelago is to have the negative result of a real-time PCR test for the detection of the coronavirus taken up to 96 hours before the trip.
According to figures from the Ministry of Health with a cut to August 2, 103 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the Galapagos.
Norman Wray, president of the Galapagos Governing Council, said that there are no community cases on the islands and that work is being done to prevent the virus from spreading.
To receive the first flight in Baltra, the concessionaire that manages the air terminal has provided the guards with protective helmets that detect the body temperature of the passengers.
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