UIO Quito

How deep the UIO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from UIO. This reads the same 22 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 13of the 22 destinations are flown by one airline
• 10destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 50%of the destinations name Avianca, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at UIO

Eleven airlines appear on the UIO board and they do not hold it evenly. Avianca is on 11 of the 22 destinations, 50 per cent of them, and on 6 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 39.4 of the 59.2 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 7 destinations. 7 of the 11 airlines at UIO 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 11 of the 22 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a UIO 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 UIO than the destination count does.

How much of the UIO board is daily

Of the 22 destinations, 12 are flown at least once a day and 10 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the UIO 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: UIO to San Cristóbal (SCY) 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 41.7 of the 59.2 departures a day, 70.5 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves UIO 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
San Cristóbal SCY	Ecuador	Avianca	1	1,255	plan this
New York JFK	the United States	Avianca	2	4,557	plan this
Montería MTR	Colombia	Euroairlines	3	1,034	plan this
Mexico City MEX	Mexico	Aeromexico	4	3,136	the pair page
San José SJO	Costa Rica	Avianca	4	1,298	plan this
Buenos Aires EZE	Argentina	Avianca	5	4,373	the pair page
Santa Clara SAL	El Salvador	Avianca	5	1,915	plan this
Santa Rosa ETR	Ecuador	Euroairlines	5	409	plan this
Rionegro MDE	Colombia	Avianca	6	772	plan this

The nine destinations out of UIO 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 UIO

The desk holds the return direction for 13 of the 22 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 13 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through UIO is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Miami (MIA) files 4.3 a day back into UIO against 2.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at UIO

UIO 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 UIO, 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.

Where UIO 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.

The site publishes 3 airport pair pages that start or end at UIO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Quito to Bogotá (BOG), Quito to Buenos Aires (EZE) and Quito to Mexico City (MEX).

Six courier postings name UIO as the airport a courier here flies from: Quito, Ambato and Santo Domingo de los Colorados.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with UIO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 22 destinations above.