Venezuela authorizes regular flights to Spain but not to Portugal — DNOTICIAS.PT
Venezuela” to carry out regular flights to Spain, but continuing to allow the possibility of commercial flights to Portugal.
“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 Agencies that intend Venezuela to maintain and have felt the operations that “those who have arrived at a flexible operation have not been to aircraft that were made for Venezuela, they have felt that “
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.
The first order for two human flights, TAP and our flights, in two human flights, in December and today, two human flights. [12 de dezembro]. Tests have not been carried out with Venezuelan authorities and requests that have not yet been made for these flights,” 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 the communicators and which will be updated in force in the next few days residing 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.
The covid-19 as a result of the pandemic 5,593,747 deaths worldwide since the beginning, according to the latest balance of the Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
The new variant Ómicron, classified as worrying and very contagious by the World Health Organization (WHO), was detected from Southern Africa and, since the South African health authorities alert in countries, it has become dominant in several countries, including Portugal. .