Are the flights Boca Manu to Cusco often delayed?
Concerning the Manu flights, they can be delayed, due to bad weather (there is no radar on the Boca Manu landings strip) or other external circumstances, but in appr. 50% of the cases we fly this means a delay of hours. You still return to Cusco on the same day, but in the afternoon instead of in the morning. In about 10% of the cases we fly, people have to wait an extra night at the Boca Manu airport, to return to Cusco the morning of the next day. The extra costs occasioned in the rainforest by a non-flight situation are paid by Pantiacolla (extra overnights, meals etc.). Extra costs outside of the rainforest, such as hotel expenses in Cusco or elsewhere, changing airplane tickets etc., are not Pantiacolla´s responsibility. The recent construction of a road between Boca Colorado and Puerto Maldonado on the Madre de Dios River, now also gives us the option to return to Cusco by Puerto Maldonado. The two return flight options, the first by Boca Manu and the second by Puerto Maldonado,
