While Turpial and Rutaca reported a new route, the Spanish airlines Air Europa and Plus Ultra announced the extension of their cancellations in response to the safety recommendations of the Spanish Aviation Safety Agency (AESA).
The Venezuelan airlines Turpial and Rutaca announced this Tuesday, December 9, a route of direct flights to Panama, after the wave of flight cancellations that left Venezuela without foreign airline operations.
In the case of Turpial, it reported that its flights will depart and return to the city of Valencia, Carabobo state, starting on December 15; while Rutaca will do so from Barquisimeto, Lara state, starting December 20.
In one Instagram postTurpial reported that this route will have two weekly Valencia-Panama City-Valencia itineraries, every Monday and Wednesday.
Turpial also reported last week of new frequencies on its flight from Valencia to Bogotá and announced that it opened a new route to the Colombian city of Medellín.
Rutaca airline also reported the start of a new route to connect Venezuela with other destinations. On his Instagram account he announced that starting December 20 he will have flights from Barquisimeto, Lara state, to Panama, on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Rutaca also offers options from Caracas to Bogotá, Colombia, starting December 15. These flights will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The announcement was made known on the same day that the Spanish airline Air Europa extended its cancellations to and from Caracas from December 12 to December 19.
For its part, Plus Ultra, also Spanish, will not fly to Venezuela at least until December 31, following the recommendation not to fly from the Spanish Aviation Safety Agency (AESA).
This airline enabled a Madrid-Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) flight starting this Wednesday, which will link with Caracas through the Venezuelan Laser.
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Venezuela lost almost two-thirds of its international frequencies in two weeks, following the security warning from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on November 21, over the airspace of the South American country and the southern Caribbean, amid tensions over the US air-naval deployment in the region.
For the first week of December, the 12 international airlines operating in the country suspended flights.
Iberia, Air Europa and Plus Ultra (Spain), TAP (Portugal), Avianca (Colombia), Gol (Brazil), Latam Colombia and Turkish Airlines lost their flight concession in Venezuela by order of the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC).
However, on Saturday Nicolás Maduro and the president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, spoke by telephone and agreed to restore the Turkish Airlines route between Caracas and Istanbul “as soon as possible.”
The companies Copa (Panama), Wingo (Colombia), Satena and Boliviana de Aviación (Bolivia) initially maintained their operations, but last week they announced limited suspensions.
In Venezuela there are nine local airlines and seven fly to international destinations, although some of them – such as Estelar and Laser – have temporarily canceled their Caracas-Madrid-Caracas flights, after the Spanish Air Safety Agency issued a “high recommendation” to civil operators not to fly over Venezuela.
Given the cascade of suspensions, Venezuelan airlines have announced new routes and frequencies, including trips to the city of San Antonio del Táchira (west), where the Simón Bolívar International Bridge is located, the main land border crossing with Colombia.
With information from the EFE agency
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