Quito - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
We often travel to the United States, there are direct flights year-round to Miami, Atlanta, and Houston but most tend to be red-eye flights. There are not a lot of direct international flights out of Quito or Guayaquil but there are some options to Spain, Amsterdam, Panama, Colombia, and Peru. - May 2025
From the United States. United, American Airlines, and Delta have frequent flights here from the U.S. Many foreign airlines like Copa and Avianca have connecting flights all over the country and nearby countries. Mariscal Sucre Quito International Airport is like any other international airport. Many flights get here very late, around midnight, especially if you’re flying United, most come from Houston. Lots of taxis at the airport, around $25 to get into the city, 45 minutes. Uber is also available and inexpensive. Most short rides are less than $3. - May 2025
We are DC-based, and thought that it would be easier to travel home more frequently, given it's only a 5-hour flight to Miami, but flights out of Quito are often inconvenient (especially with kids) and expensive. Most international flights leave and arrive very late at night for some reason. Picking up visitors at the airport at 9pm instead of midnight felt like a real treat. - Apr 2025
Washington DC area, USA. There are direct flights from Quito into Houston, Atlanta, Miami and Ft Lauderdale. The flight times aren't very long, but for some reason many of the flights leave late at night or pre-dawn hours, so you end up rather sleep deprived. - Jul 2023
Usually fly from Quito to either Atlanta or Miami and connect there. - Jul 2023
US. We are from the East coast so we fly through Atlanta or Miami and catch a connection from there. The total day is about 12 hours. The difficulty is that flights leave out of Quito either around 6am or midnight but the flights are short (4-5 hours) so you lose sleep and need the day you arrive to recover. It's such a pain. - Jul 2019
U.S. About four hours to Miami, 5 to Atlanta. There are also flights to Houston. - Jul 2018
It's about five hours direct to the U.S, which is nice. American flies to Miami or Dallas, United to Houston, Delta to Atlanta, and Jet Blue to Ft Lauderdale. - Mar 2017
USA - 5 hours from Miami and then connect to other cities so time varies. - Sep 2016
Washington DC. There are three direct flights to the U.S. currently: via Miami on American Airlines, Houston on United, and Atlanta on Delta. Some additional routes should open in the near future. - Aug 2015
New Jersey; the trip is about 3.5 hours to Miami and 2 more from there to NJ. - Aug 2014
Pretty much anywhere to Miami, then 3.5 hours to Quito. - Jul 2012
North Carolina, trip was about 8 hours, with a connection through Atlanta. - Jan 2011
Miami-Quito is about 5 hours. - May 2010
