Covid-19: Venezuela authorizes regular flights to Spain but not to Portugal
With the exception of scheduled flights to Portugal, but continuing to operate scheduled flights for commercial flights, but continuing to operate scheduled flights for commercial flights.
“On an exceptional commercial basis, they are exclusively authorized as operations for the transport of passengers to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the countries of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the countries of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Panama, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Russia, Cuba and Spain”, says a statement released by the Venezuelan Civil Aeronautics Institute (INAC).
Diplomatic Sources said that the Diplomatic Agencies that were sent to Venezuela have felt the Agency that “Apartments that have reached a direction will not be flexible to operations other than aircraft that have arrived in Venezuela and have been made to some flexible operations that have not been launched in Venezuela.
On December 12, the Portuguese ambassador to Caracas, Carlos de Sousa Amaro, complained that Venezuela had not responded to authorization requests for TAP to carry out humanitarian flights between Caracas and Lisbon, despite having other airlines. authorized.
“We, TAP and two human flights, ours on behalf of TAP, a request for two human flights in December and humanitarian flights in January. The first flight of the month of December would have left today [12 de dezembro]. the Venezuelan authorities are not expected to have been carried out and the requests that have not yet been made so that these flights are not,” Carlos de Sousa Amaro told Lusa.
December travel agencies consulted by Lusa explained that the local Portuguese community has frequently asked for the renewal of direct flights to Portugal and that they do not understand why TAP does not receive authorization, when several airlines were authorized to do so from 2021 and January. 2022, namely between Caracas and Madrid.
In 2020, Portugal repatriated more than 1,200 Portuguese, in five flights, three of them carried out by TAP.
The INAC communiqué is based on the communiqués released to communicators and which will be in force for the next 30 days, updating information released last week by the same Institute, for today from the Venezuelan Government guidelines “in order to guarantee that citizens who reside in the country”, mitigating the effects of the covid-19 pandemic.
In the statement, INAC asks airlines and travel agencies not to sell tickets for unauthorized routes and to citizens.
Venezuela has been on alert since March 13, 2020, which allows the executive to enact “drastic decisions” to combat the pandemic.
In the months of December, the declared quarantine and manipulations, due to the realization of regional constructions and also due to the Christmas season.
The easing of the quarantine currently remains indefinitely.
In Venezuela, 469,566 cases of covid-19 are confirmed. There are still 5,405 deaths associated with the new coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.