Naabol Director clarifies that haze in Viru Viru did not affect operations and that they will be normal during the holiday

The regional director of the state Air Navigation and Bolivian Airports (Naabol), Milton López, in a video released this Tuesday morning, clarified that the haze that emerged at Viru Viru Airportduring the early hours of the morning, did not affect landing and takeoff operations, because It was only 20 minutes.

“Today we have had adverse weather information, due to haze, which I believe will lower visibility at the Viru Viru international airport, but this meteorological observation has not affected operations, both departures and arrivals, because it has simply been for the period of 20 minutes,” said López.

At the same time, he announced that the operations for the remainder of this Tuesday the 24th and the holiday of December 25, Operations will take place “with complete normality.”

“The only recommendation to the general population is that “Take your precautions because there is a great demand for passengers.”said the executive.

In the early hours of this Tuesday morning, Naabol issued a statement that would have caused confusion among air transport users, since the title mentioned that at 6:27 the flights had been suspended. landing operations and in the text lines below, it was mentioned that the operations suspended were takeoff.

Minutes later, the Viru Viru administrator reported in another statement that the takeoff and landing operations They were restored at 6:47 a.m. Visibility reached 1,200 meters, when the standard establishes that they must be 1,600 meters “to guarantee flight safety in the takeoff of aircraft.”