Secure projections 2022 aim to overcome air traffic operations in the Dominican Republic, compared with the best prepandemic period, correspondent to 2018.
Santo Domingo.The general director interim of The Dominican Civil Aviation Institute Idac, Héctor Porcella, claimed that the aeronautical sector has played a key role in tourism recovery,by achieving the fastest recovery of air traffic in Latin America and achieve the prior figures before the pandemic.
He stated that the responsable institutions of civil aviation has accompanied with firm determination the strategy promoted by president Luis Abinader and the Tourism minister , David Collado, to make possible that the Dominican Republic has become in the number one country in touristical activity recovery world wide level.
Highlighting that the air traffic recovery in the country started in a sustainable way since october 2021, when incoming and outgoing flies statistical overcame in a 9% operations of the same period in 2019.
“This data are more significant when we make the comparison with Europe, where the commercial aviation recovery started in 2022 trimestral,although it remains in a 42% low level of 2019, according with the most recently inform of european division of International Airports Council, Aci Europe”, pointed Porcella.
He pointed out that in Spain case, the second most important tourist destination in the world,the numbers of passengers recieved in its airports in the first five months of the year represents the 80% of those registered in the first five months of 2019.
When refering to the inform of the Tourism Ministry about the sector evolution in the first five months of the year, Idac’s bearer,pointed that projections aim to overcome air operations in incoming and outgoing of passengers in the Dominican Republic, compared with the best pandemic period, corresponding to year 2018.
According with Mitur data, tourist arrival last month of may registered an 11 per cent growing above may 2018, a 6 per cent more than 2019 and a 44% in relation with th same period of the year 2021.
Porcella pointed that the last months the Dominican has extended its air routes approving around seven flies permits to Europe cities,United States, Center and South America, while step forward in evaluating of at least 12 air lines in differents phase of certification,some of which are already operating under the authorized protocols by the Dominican Aeronautical Regulation.
Porcella said that he shares numbers about the contributions of civil aviation to tourism,not to answer to those who question the goverment and the current aeronauticals authorities,but to shows numbers and facts that the men and women that serve in the institutions are firmly aligned in the engagement headed by president Luis Abinader to facing the crisis of external origen and strengthen the country as an example to follow in the world .