Eastern Airlines temporarily suspends flights to Asuncion

Eastern Airlines inaugurated operations to Asuncion on January 6, marking the return of flights between the United States and Paraguay after five years. The US airline began with two weekly operations on Boeing 767-300(ER) aircraft, configured with 244 seats.

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As a result of good occupancies due to vacation tourism to the United States, in April the airline increased to three flights per week between Miami and Asunción.

In mid-July, Eastern Airlines reduced to two operations a week, returning to the company’s original schedule for flights to Paraguay. The airline was also scheduled to operate this number of frequencies between August and October.

According to information published by our partner Aeronáutica Paraguay, Eastern Airlines is temporarily canceling its flights between Miami and Asunción, which began nine months ago.

Among the reasons for the suspension are a sharp decline in demand, the closing of Argentina’s borders, the increase in Copa Airlines flights to Asuncion, and the reduction in vaccine tourism to the United States.

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According to the current schedule, Eastern Airlines plans to resume operations to Asuncion on November 2. Flights will be operated on Boeing 767-300(ER) aircraft, three times a week.

Schedule between Miami and Asuncion (Eastern)

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Flight	From	ETD	To	ETA
2D 162	Miami (MIA)	12:30 am	Asuncion (ASU)	6:30 am
2D 161	Asuncion (ASU)	1:10 am	Miami (MIA)	11:10 am

Flight	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
2D 162			×		×		×
2D 161	×			×		×

With this suspension Eastern is left with only 2 routes in its network to and from the United States. At the beginning of the year, the company planned to operate more than 10 routes in August, taking into account Latin America and Europe.

Last August 16 we published that Eastern Airlines would have non-stop flights between Miami and Santa Cruz de la Sierra starting in November. So far there has been no official announcement by the airline.

See also: Eastern Airlines plans to fly to Bolivia.