At Las Americas International Airport at least 1,200 passengers with tickets on suspended PAWA Dominicana flights were demanding solutions from the airline. The operations of PAWA Dominicana were suspended for three months by order from the Civil Aviation Board (JAC) after the company accumulated debt for about US$7.8 million. PAWA Dominicana owes US $3.0 million of its debt to the Aerodom company that operates the airport.
For some three days now hundreds of Dominicans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Puerto Ricans, and other nationalities who had bought tickets on PAWA to travel to Havana, Caracas, Aruba, Curaçao, St. Martin and Puerto Rico have been stuck at Las Americas International Airport trying to get to their destinations.
One report says that of the 1,734 passengers who had been stranded at the airport over the Duarte long weekend, some 517 have been able to reach their destinations in Aruba, Curaçao, Cuba and Venezuela through other airlines.
Luis Camilo, the head of the Civil Aviation Board (JAC) says that he expects that this week other passengers especially those headed to Puerto Rico and St. Martin will be able to reach their destination on aircraft rented for this purpose.
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El Nacional
1 February 2018
