Replacement of flights between Portugal and Venezuela requested by airlines — DNOTICIAS
The Venezuelan Company Association (ALAV to the authorities of the country of the air chain) today asked for flights to Portugal, since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic.
“We want flights to Portugal to resume (…) because the world is returning to normal and we are falling behind a little”, said the president of ALAV, Humberto Figuera, to journalists.
Figuera welcomed the recent decision by the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics of Venezuela (INAC) to authorize scheduled flights between Venezuela and Spain, but insisted that “all the nearest frequencies and destinations must be normalized, as all countries of the world”.
“We understand and accept that there are countries that accept the coronavirus, but there is no way that flights between all countries cannot take place. Venezuela, the obligation to perform a PCR test on arrival has also been established”, explained the president of ALAV.
Humberto Figuera insisted that it is important “to open up the destination Venezuela” to “all airlines that withdrew due to the pandemic and for other reasons”.
“Air transport is synonymous with progress, with a strengthened economy” he underlined.
On January 24, Venezuela was implemented as the connections to commercial passenger connections, to allow regular flights to Spain, but continuing flights to Spain and 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.
“TAP, TAP and TAP and our resistance, a request on behalf of TAP Humanitários, a request for two flights in December and two flights known as our authorities have not yet given us a response, despite how our authorities have not yet given us response, although not as our authorities have not yet given us an answer, although not as our authorities have done”, Carlos de Sousa Amaro told Lusa.
Travel agencies explain that the local Portuguese community has been asking for the renewal of direct flights through Portugal and that they do not understand the reason why TAP does not receive authorization, several airlines were authorized when making air flights were authorized when making flights, namely Caracas and Madrid.
In 2020, Portugal repatriated more than 1,200 Portuguese, in five flights, three of them carried out by TAP.
Venezuela has been on alert since March 13, 2020, which allows the executive to enact “drastic decisions” to combat the pandemic.
In Venezuela, 477,022 cases of covid-19 are confirmed. There are still 5,425 deaths associated with the new coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
Covid-19 has caused more than 5.633 million deaths in the world since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest report by 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. .