🧭 Quito Traffic Statistics Primary Key Points to SEQM
Valid observations for Quito airport traffic statistics are concentrated under the current code, SEQM. Avi-Go data show that from March 1 to September 3, 2026, SEQM recorded 873 business aviation movements, including 434 departures and 439 arrivals. Among the complete months, July ranked first with 176 movements, followed by April with 161, May with 145, June with 140, August with 123, and March with 109. An additional 19 movements were recorded from September 1 to September 3. A review using only the ICAO code SEQU returned no records for the same period, so it should not be used for market capacity comparisons with SEQM. With only a five-movement difference between departures and arrivals, SEQM can serve as the primary airport identifier for analyzing Quito business aviation activity during this period.
Impact: If airports, brokers, and data purchasers treat SEQM and SEQU as parallel traffic identifiers, this may create inconsistencies in the statistical scope of the Quito market. Standardizing on SEQM helps maintain consistency across flight searches, historical time series, and capacity analysis. Monthly activity varied between 109 and 176 movements, which also means resource analysis should be broken down by month rather than relying solely on the six-month aggregate.
Recommendation: Use SEQM as the default airport field in Quito business aviation reports, client requests, and data interfaces, and designate SEQU as a legacy-code exception-check item that is excluded from capacity rankings and market-share calculations. Future monitoring should continue to count departures and arrivals separately and update the monthly baseline using complete months, avoiding direct comparisons between the 19 movements recorded from September 1 to September 3, 2026, and a complete month.