The Tourism Cabinet approved the country’s new Protocol for the Management of Non-Commercial Private Aviation last week. The new guidelines seek to facilitate aviation tourism. Airport Department Victor Pichardo made the presentation at the Presidential Palace. The new guidelines seek to enhance safety and make the country’s international and domestic airports more efficient and transparent in servicing private aviation.
“This is a joint effort between all the agencies of the sector, the central government, the airport operators and the aeroclubs, said Pichardo. He says President Luis Abinader sees private aviation as one of the main axes of the national tourism industry. The mandate is to foster more fly-ins of private aviation and make it easier for solo private plane tourism. President Abinader himself presides the Tourism Cabinet.
This is the country’s first private aviation manual of procedures. Provisions are included on dealing with the agencies of customs and migration. Charges are established for the facilities offered to improve the sector’s competitiveness and positively impact the tourism industry.
Likewise, the initiative comprehensively covers domestic and international airports in regards to facilitating the reception, dispatch, information management and assistance to private plane pilots and passengers. The DR seeks to attract a greater share of the more than 40,000 private aircraft that fly to the Caribbean every year, but of which very few fly to the the Dominican Republic.
The government agencies signing the protocol are the Airport Department, the Ministry of Tourism (Mitur), the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC), the Specialized Civil Aviation and Security Corps (CESAC), the Customs Agency (DGA), and the Migration (DGM), the Dominican Airforce and the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD).
The airports of Punta Cana, Cibao, Aerodom (Santo Domingo, Barahona, Puerto Plata and Samana airports operators, and the Quisqueya and Dominicano 74 aeroclubs signed on for the private sector.
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12 April 2022