Idac’s interim general director, Héctor Porcella, thanks president Abinader for sponsoring iniciative to support a touristic segment of high economic potential to the country.
Santo Domingo. The Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (Idac) highlighted that the new protocol that will govern domestic flies operation will contribute to turn the Dominican Republic in the main power in tourism in aviation in the Caribbean.
“The new rule instrument, sponsored by president Luis Abinader and approved by those institutions with responsability in the country air traffic, creates the conditions for the Dominican Republic can compete advantageously with the huge market of aviation tourism, that actually moves yearly between 45 thousand and 50 thousands aircraft in all the Caribbean ”, pointed Porcella.
Pointing that sector institutions had created a table work and had agreed to define a protocol to incentivate this important tourist segment of high consume that attracts, thousands of pilots from diferents parts of the world, specially from USA and Canada.
He said that to obtain that protocol, that makes possible to eliminate the hurdles of bureaucracy that stops that activity, president Abinader played a key role as part of his engagement of “Cero bureaucracy”, or at least,the minimum necessaries to guarantee the operational safety and the law enforcement in the country.
Porcella recognized the effort displayed by the director of Airport Department, Víctor Pichardo and the Airforce Commander in chief of the Dominican Republic, major general Leonel Muñoz Noboa,to clear the bureaucraty hurdles and to facilitate the implementation of the new protocol.
He explained that in that kind of task dominican air clubs are involved ,which are the ones with the “know-how”, knowledge of everyday situations and most of the complaints for the hurdles that were affecting this activity.
“Its good to remember that taking a plane, by example, in la Isabela airport, to travel to Punta Cana, Puerto Plata, Barahona or Montecristi,it is like taking a ground transportation, with the difference that it is faster and safer like any other way of transport”, pointed Porcella.
He said that IDACs authorities and technician and some other institutions of the aeronautic sector had come to internationalevents as Lakeland and Oshkosh fair , the greatest world air show festival, to promote the country as a private aviation destination.
Porcella spoke about the country potentialities in commercial and tourist aviation when he was interviewed by the journalist Ricardo Rojas León in his tv program “A fondo” to the bottom, broadcast by channel RNN.