National Airlines
It's really amazing how dominicans like to be torture. How many times a "National" airlines have open up and close miserably, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. What happened to Dominicana, Queen Air, APA, Hispaniola, etc?? I used to give my full support on a dominican or national carrier, I experienced that, but at the end it was just a pipe dream. In this environment there is no current capacity for national airline anymore, that's in the past. We got our chance, we lost it. What is happening with Aeromar now? Even samana1 is admitting the problems.
Then talk about corruption in CAB, it has always happened...Do you think only foreign carriers grease the wheels on the CAB? Or let's look at the dominican carriers accumulating a hugh debt and still flying. Eli, in 1997, what happened when Air Santo Domingo was looking to start flying, who was blocking all the permits to start operation? You remember those emergency windows installed in the center of the fuselage? Who was behind it, and who was the only company to install it? So before trying to blame others on screwing the national airlines, look in your own shoes. We are always complaining that we never move fwd but reality is, that we are the only ones at fault.