Estelar indicated that the alternative will begin to operate next Monday, December 8 “for those passengers with an affected travel date” and assured that passengers with tickets for the next few days “will maintain their flight on the corresponding days, except for Fridays, which will undergo a slight modification.”
The Venezuelan airline Estelar announced a new route from Venezuela to Madrid and from Madrid to Caracas with a stopover in Barbados, this after the cancellation of flights, after the United States Federal Aviation Administration recommended “extreme caution” when flying over Venezuelan territory and the southern Caribbean in the face of “a potentially dangerous situation in the region.”
Through a statement, Estelar indicated that the alternative will begin to operate next Monday, December 8 “for those passengers with an affected travel date” and assured that passengers with tickets for the next few days “will maintain their flight on the corresponding days, except Fridays, which will suffer a slight modification.”
Estelar airline invites passengers to contact the company to reconfirm the flight and other details.
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They explained that the alternative route is: Caracas-Barbados-Madrid and return Madrid-Barbados-Caracas. However, the company did not detail whether passengers must pay for the connecting route to Barbados.
Laser, another Venezuelan airline, also took a similar measure that will lead passengers to stopover in the city of Cartagena to continue to Madrid or to return from Spain to Venezuela.
Since the US announced that there were dangers of flying over Venezuelan airspace, foreign airlines operating from the country suspended operations.
The six Venezuelan airlines that offer international flights from Venezuela are:
From Valencia Airport:
Turpial Airlines: Bogotá (Colombia).
From Maiquetia Airport:
Avior Airlines: Panama, Bogotá, Curaçao (with subsequent connection to Miami).
Laser Airlines: Bogotá, Panama, Curaçao (also used as a link to Miami).
Star: Panama
Venezuelan Aviation: Panama
Conviasa: Barbados, Cancún and Santa Lucía (Mexico), Guangzhou (China), Havana and Varadero (Cuba), Managua (Nicaragua), Moscow and Saint Petersburg (Russia).
Last Saturday, December 6, Nicolás Maduro spoke by telephone with the president of Türkiye to find a way to restore the operations of Turkish Airlines.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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