The Civil Aviation Board (JAC) has approved eight evacuation flights from Las Americas International Airport (SDQ) to ferry foreign citizens who were stranded in the country after the shutdown of airline operations. Luis Jose Lopez, spokesperson for the airport, said the operations are being carried out through Thursday, 9 April 2020. The flights are by JetBlue and Delta Airlines. The flights arrive without passengers from the United States and depart to Luis Munoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico and to New York City’s John F. Kennedy International airport.
“We want to clarify, so that there is no misunderstanding, that the eight flights that will be made this week, as well as those that have been made in the past, are flights for the departure of passengers on ferry flights, which arrive without passengers,” said Luis Lopez. He said the JAC has authorized that the Las Americas International Airport is the only airport through which the special flights are being carried out.
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Listin Diario
9 April 2020