The Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Air Transport, Ramón Celestino Velásquez, and the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics, INAC, issued a response to the proposal of the Plan for travel agencies and airlines presented by the Venezuelan Chamber of Air Transport, Ceveta, and the Venezuelan Association of Travel Agents and Tourism, Avavit, reported El Nacional.
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The proposal contemplates non-scheduled flights, both domestic and international, and that these can be distributed through recognized travel and tourism agencies, which must resume operations before the realization of such flights.
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In addition, it includes that each airline validates before the INAC a plan in accordance with its operational capacity to comply with the mobility of the nationals stranded in some places and also to reactivate the productivity of the sector and the country in its different areas.
“It is important to highlight that the National Executive agreed to support the airlines since together with the INAC they will agree on agreements for the payment of cryptoactive debts incurred. In view of the fact that service providers also require cash flow to continue operating, the airlines will have to manage and sign with each entity or service provider, an agreement that will finance the debt acquired after the start of commercial operations,” said the Vice Minister of Air Transport.
Biosafety Protocol
He indicated that Ceveta designed a biosafety protocol exclusive to the sector, which will be presented to the authorities of the aeronautical sector and the Ministry of Health.
“This scheme will not only allow to reactivate the sector in search of the new normality, but it will also allow the State the controls to continue flattening the curve of effects of the covid-19, and at the same time generate biosecurity with control and quality schemes that do not allow speculation in the referred controls and tests”, he said on the matter.
He added: “All the above has been a work of the Vice Ministry of Air Transport, INAC, Ceveta, Avavit, which are generating the processes of starting the commercial aviation sector in the coming month of November, since, currently complying with the quarantine schemes, the Executive can announce a relaxation for the operation centers and so the airlines can comply with administrative and operational protocols on the ground.
The paralysis of the air sector exceeds six months, since on March 12 a State of Emergency was decreed due to the coronavirus.
Since then, only a few humanitarian flights have been allowed.
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