Travel – Page 504

Raul Perez Peña, organizer of the First National Sancocho Festival last year, announced that the second annual event to honor the national dish will be held 17 November to 1 December. He highlighted the many virtues of the Dominican stew. He said that in addition to being the dish par excellence of Dominican gastronomy, it …

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DR1 erroneously published a note last week that the Venezuelan company Aeropostal had won the tender for the privatization of Dominicana Airlines. The brief, taken from a local news source, is not correct. The Commission for the Reform of Public Enterprise told DR1 that the tender is to take place Wednesday, September 19. (13 September …

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The president of the Hotel & Restaurant Association Ramon Prieto told Hoy newspaper that the attack on the US will affect travel to the DR especially because the country has been successfully targeting the American market. He said that the “panorama for the travel sector has changed.” Arturo Villanueva, executive vice president of the association, …

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American Airlines reports that regularly scheduled American Airlines, American Eagle and TWA flights will resume very limited operations no sooner than 3 pm today, Thursday, 13 September. The airline says operations will be focused on moving aircraft that were diverted on Tuesday to their original destinations. The company says it expects the return to a …

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News reports say that 700 Dominicans are stranded in Miami awaiting the opening of US airports. More than 5,000 passengers on 46 flights were scheduled to fly out of Las Americas International Airport, Santo Domingo’s main terminal. (13 September 2001)

Ripples of shock rushed through the DR as Dominicans learned of the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City and damage to the US Pentagon. Two American Airlines and two United Airlines flights headed for California were hijacked before they crashed into the buildings around 9 am. Thousands are reported dead. For …

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