About five airlines, and more than 1,500 passengers who were booked to travel to Venezuela, have been affected by the measure taken by the Dominican government and this South American country to suspend commercial flights between the two countries.
Among the area lines that operate the Santo Domingo-Caracas route, are Venezuelan Aviation, Laser Airlines, Coviasa, Turpia and Avior Airlines, which maintained operations from Las Américas Airport to the Venezuelan capital.
These same airlines also have commercial flights from other Dominican terminals to the Venezuelan capital.
On the 13th of this month Venezuela decided to close its airports for all international flights, including those in the Dominican Republic; however, this did not apply to Turkey, Mexico or Bolivia.
Venezuelan authorities justified this action on the grounds of an increase in Covid-19 cases in the country.
Two days later, the Dominican Government, through the Civil Aviation Board (JAC), is increasingly ordering the temporary closure of air operations between the Dominican Republic and this South American country.
Aeropuertos Dominicanos XXI Aerodom, explained that the suspension of commercial flights from the Dominican Republic to Venezuela leaves stranded more than 1,500 domestic and Venezuelan passengers.
Some Venezuelan travelers who refused to be identified, will be suspended from the flight operations to their country, will be taken in the Christmas season when miles of them will move to their country.
In the national territory there is an estimated Venezuelan community of more than 20,000 citizens involved in the labor and productive market in the Dominican Republic, many of whom had made reservations to travel to their homeland to visit family and friends at Christmas.
According to the details, the situation also hurts decades of office workers, ramp, mechanics, administrative area that gave in ground terminal services to aircraft on foreign airline lines prevented from flying to the nation South American from the Las Américas terminal in Santo Domingo.
The restriction measure, however, will not affect aircraft in a state of emergency, cargo and mail flights, humanitarian, Medevac (ambulance area), repatriation, United Nations, stop techniques and general and commercial aviation flyovers. .
The above aircraft must have prior authorization from the Dominican aeronautical authorities, except for those in a state of emergency and general and commercial aviation overflights.