GYE Guayaquil

How deep the GYE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from GYE. This reads the same 16 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 10of the 16 destinations are flown by one airline
• 4destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 56.2%of the destinations name Avianca, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at GYE

Eight airlines appear on the GYE board and they do not hold it evenly. Avianca is on 9 of the 16 destinations, 56.2 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 34.6 of the 47.1 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is LATAM on 6 destinations. 4 of the 8 airlines at GYE appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 9 of the 16 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a GYE sector is usually another Avianca aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at GYE than the destination count does.

How much of the GYE board is daily

Of the 16 destinations, 12 are flown at least once a day and 4 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the GYE board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: GYE to Santa Clara (SAL) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 35.9 of the 47.1 departures a day, 76.1 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves GYE is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Santa Clara SAL	El Salvador	Copa Airlines	1	2,008	plan this
Buenos Aires EZE	Argentina	Avianca	3	4,251	plan this
Rionegro MDE	Colombia	Avianca	3	1,050	plan this
San José SJO	Costa Rica	Avianca	4	1,433	plan this

The four destinations out of GYE where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.

The way back from GYE

The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 16 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 11 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through GYE is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: New York (JFK) files 6 a day back into GYE against 2.9 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at GYE

GYE keeps America/Guayaquil time, nine hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at GYE, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at GYE

1 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from GYE that lands inside it leaves around 03:39, on a modelled block of 12h 21m. Those one departure times out of GYE are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where GYE turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Ecuador country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

Seven courier postings name GYE as the airport a courier here flies from: Guayaquil, Cuenca and Portoviejo.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with GYE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 16 destinations above.