Santo Domingo, DR. – In the first session, headed by Lic. Hector Porcella Dumas, as president of the Civil Aviation Board, The Dominican Republic increased its air connectivity with other states of the world, establishing more flights and connecting routes direct to and from Dominican territory.
During the third extraordinary meeting of the body responsible for establishing the highest policy for civil aviation, Mr. Porcella Dumas reiterated that he will continue working to increase the country’s air connectivity and consolidate the national territory as the epicenter of tourism and air transport between the countries of the greater Caribbean.
The new president of the Civil Aviation Board, appointed by the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, by Decree 390-24, after having been general director of the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (IDAC), an organization in which he stood out within the national and international sector, learned, together with the other members of the plenary, of the request for a special permit from Air Caraibes to operate the Paris-Orly/Santo Domingo/Punta Cana/Paris-Orly route, from August 29, 2024 to October 17, 2024.
During the period from January 2023 to July 2024, Air Caraibes handled 241,224 passengers in 1,065 inbound and outbound air operations.
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“Our goal will be to establish greater air connectivity to increase the number of tourists traveling to the Dominican Republic. Tourism represents around 16% of the Dominican Republic’s GDP,” said the new president of the JAC.
The members of the plenary session also learned about Air Transat’s request for a special permit to fly from November 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025, on the routes: Toronto/Samaná, Quebec /Samaná, Toronto/La Romana, Ottawa/Puerto Plata; Ottawa/Punta Cana, Moncton/Punta Cana and London, Ontario /Punta Cana.
According to data from the Statistics Division of the JAC Air Transport Department, the foreign air operator Air Transat, from January 2023 to July 2024, mobilized 1,455,713 passengers in 7,060 inbound and outbound air operations on the routes authorized in its operating permit and other modalities, “Dominicans can travel directly to the cities of Toronto, Quebec, Ottawa, Moncton and London, in Canada, without having to wait at another airport,” Porcella reported.
