The director of the Dominican Republic’s Civil Aviation Board, lawyer Vitelio Mejía Ortíz said that his department is hard at work so that the objective of President Fernández, that the DR become a model for civil aviation in the Caribbean and Central America, be achieved. The DR CAB is implementing a program which would again make it possible for Dominican flag airlines to fly to the United States. The DR airplanes were banned when the FAA determined that there were severe infringements of safety regulations. Mejía Ortíz made the comments when interviewed following his participation in the Second Meeting of Directors of Civil Aviation in the Caribbean and the V Meeting of the Network for the Improvement of Air Control Traffic Links being held in Santo Domingo. The meetings are attended by civil aviation delegates from Aruba, Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, the United States, Haiti, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, United Kingdom, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic.
