Cheapest€32.59
- Avianca Ecuador AE123006:2151m07:12Quito UIOCuenca CUE
Door to door 4h 1mCO2 76.3 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Quito to Cuenca flight
Flights from Quito to Cuenca start at €33.77 and take 3h 59m at their fastest.
The Flights from Quito to Cuenca starts at €33.77 and takes 3h 59m door to door, run by 2 operators over 310 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 3h 59mDoor to door
- 49mMoving
- €33.77From
- 76.3 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€33.77
- Avianca Ecuador AE326314:5049m15:39Quito UIOCuenca CUE
Door to door 3h 59mCO2 76.3 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
The trip ends at Terminal Terrestre. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Cuenca for the night the flight gets in
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Quito to Cuenca
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €32.0090 days
- €31.4160 days
- €32.5945 days
- €32.0030 days
- €35.5421 days
- €33.7714 days
- €39.087 days
- €53.833 days
- €68.581 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €31.41.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 118 percent. The most expensive point is €68.58, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €43.80Sun
- €38.49Mon
- €36.72Tue
- €35.54Wed
- €47.93Thu
- €44.98Fri
- €44.98Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Quito
Air
- UIO
Cuenca
Air
- CUE
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 89% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 11% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 310 km against 301 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Guayaquil. The gap between arriving and leaving is 81 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Quito at 06:16 and the last at 18:37, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Quito to Cuenca
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Quito to Cuenca take?
The Flight from Quito to Cuenca takes 3h 59m door to door, of which 49m is spent moving. The route runs 310 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Quito to Cuenca cost?
The Flight from Quito to Cuenca starts at €33.77 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €37.02. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Quito to Cuenca?
2 operators run the Flight from Quito to Cuenca: Avianca Ecuador, LAN Ecuador. Between them they file around 8 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Quito to Cuenca use?
The Flight from Quito to Cuenca leaves from Quito UIO and arrives at Cuenca CUE. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Flight from Quito to Cuenca?
Fares for the Flight from Quito to Cuenca bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €31.41. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 118 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Quito to Cuenca produce?
The Flight from Quito to Cuenca produces about 76.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 310 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Quito to Cuenca on September 9, 2026: 310 km of route against 301 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €33.77, and 3h 59m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
The fare from CUE into Cuenca is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Getting from CUE into Cuenca
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