Air Europa adds Punta Cana stopover to its Madrid-Caracas flight after attempted robbery in Caracas

Air Europa announced a Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ) layover to its Madrid-Caracas service to ensure the safety of their crew. Last week, according to sources quoted by several Spanish news sites, Air Europa crew that had arrived in Caracas over the weekend were attacked by armed robbers while travelling in a minibus from the airport to their downtown hotel. Three motorcycles surrounded the crew bus but the driver never stopped and was able to arrive at the hotel where private security guards engaged the robbers resulting in a shootout.

As reported, none of the 16 crew members were injured. Yet these refused to stay at the hotel and a police convoy took them back to the airport from where they flew back to Madrid.

Air Europa is one of only a handful of airlines that are flying to Caracas. The airline had been the only one to still allow its crew to stay in Venezuela in between flights.

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12 March 2019