Eastern Airlines Launches New Route to Asuncion, Paraguay

Between April and mid-October, Eastern Airlines has made many repatriation flights to Asuncion, capital city of Paraguay, from Miami International Airport. This special flights were made on their Boeing 767-200 and Boeing 767-300, with a capacity of 218 and 244 passengers respectively.

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Eastern Airlines announced that they will start another route from Miami in November. After 5 years without a non-stop connection with United States, Asunción will have flights to Miami in the next few weeks.

The last airline that made non-stop flights between Miami and Asuncion was American Airlines, but the company stopped flying to Paraguay in March, 2015.

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Eastern Airlines will start Asunción´s route by November 8th, 2020. Firstly, the company will have one weekly flight between United States and Paraguay. From December 15th, Eastern will operate twice a week on their Boeing 767-200 and Boeing 767-300 planes.

Schedule

Flight	From	ETD	To	ETA
2D 162	Miami (MIA)	01:00	Asuncion (ASU)	11:00
2D 161	Asuncion (ASU)	23:30	Miami (MIA)	05:30 +1

• From December 15th, 2020:

Flight	From	ETD	To	ETA
2D 162	Miami (MIA)	10:00	Asuncion (ASU)	20:00

• From December 16th, 2020:

Flight	From	ETD	To	ETA
2D 161	Asuncion (ASU)	09:00	Miami (MIA)	15:00

Frequencies from December 15th, 2020:

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

Including Asuncion´s new route from November, Eastern will have three destinations from Miami:

• Asuncion, Paraguay (from November 8, 2020).
• Georgetown, Guyana (2 weekly flights).
• Guayaquil, Ecuador (2 weekly flights).

Eastern Airlines plans to launch Miami – Buenos Aires Ezeiza route from December 12th, 2020. Flights have not been published on Eastern´s reservation system yet, but are expected to do so shortly.

Cover picture: Adam Moreira – Flickr.