Colombia takes an important step towards restarting aviation

The International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) welcomes the announcement by Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez to reopen 15 airport in September , including Bogota , call it an important step for the necessary restart of aviation in the country .

" aviation transport is an essential public help that the great unwashed require for dissimilar intellect , such as work , health , family or leisure purposes . air power ’s prospect to re-start is right tidings which will permit for the resuming of mobility and integration of the commonwealth . With this decision , the sector and its extensive time value concatenation , which includes touristry and commerce in Colombia , can set out to reconstruct . While this is the first footstep towards a total reopening , we call on the governing to continue the capable channels of communicating with the industry that will allow us to begin the process for also reactivate international flights , " said Peter Cerdá , IATA ’s Regional Vice President for the Americas .

Cerdá also thanked the Colombian President and his Minister of Transport , Angela María Orozco , the Minister of Health , Fernando Ruiz , the Director of Aerocivil , Juan Carlos Salazar and the respective city manager - for their receptiveness and willingness to cooperate with the industriousness . " During the confluence agree last Saturday with the authorities , we conveyed our wish to retain working together to increase the available capacity and facilitate the interchange of spheric ripe practices to ensure the safety of passengers and employee , " he bestow .

With the biosafety protocol approved by Colombian authorities and implemented by the industry , airmanship will not become a vector for circulate the computer virus . The industry has demonstrated that all safeguards be to re-start the industry . Proof of this are the more than 70,000 passenger who have journey in the last five month on humanitarian flying and the first mental testing route between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta , which has transported more than 1,000 passengers , indicating that there is demand for the reactivation of the sphere in the commonwealth . Furthermore , no known COVID-19 transmission have been report from these escape .

Aviation is a catalyst for economical evolution , progress and social desegregation . Every sentence a person travels , it triggers a eye mask effect of contribution , value and use of goods and services . Before the crisis , aviation generate some US$ 7.5 billion to the Colombian thriftiness , tantamount to 2.7 % of the country ’s GDP , and patronize some 600,000 direct and indirect Job .

" There are still several issues that take to be resolve before long , however , aviation will once again take off in Colombia . This will permit our manufacture to become one of the pillars of the economical retrieval of the country after the pandemic , " concluded Cerdá .

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