The Government of Venezuela suspends commercial flights with Chile

Caracas, 25 sep (EFE).- The Government of Venezuela suspended, for an undefined period, commercial air operations with Chile, A source from the Ministry of Transportation informed EFE this Wednesday.

According to a NOTAM issued by the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC), attached to that State portfolio, “air-commercial passenger transport operations to and from the Republic of Chile are suspended,” without explaining the reason.

The authorities suspend these operations a day after the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, called the Venezuelan Government a “dictatorship”, which he accused of trying to “steal” the elections on December 28. July, in which Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

In that sense, Boric called for recognition of “the triumph” that the majority anti-Chavismo – grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – claims that its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained by a wide margin.

The suspension of flights with Chile adds to the “temporary” cessation of air operations with Panama, the Dominican Republic and Peruin force since July 31 by order of the Venezuelan Executive, in rejection “of the interference of right-wing governments” with respect to the presidential elections, whose disaggregated results are still unknown.

The president of the Venezuelan Airlines Association (ALAV), Marisela de Loaiza, recently told EFE that the suspension with Panama, the Dominican Republic and Peru is a “political” measure with which the oil country reduced its international connectivity by 54%. .

Of the 181 international flights per week that there were before the measure, 83 remained, that is, 98 less, which is equivalent to about 15,000 weekly seats that are no longer available, according to the association.

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