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Customers wait their turn to be served at the Air Canada's office in Caracas on March 18, 2014. Venezuela's government said on Tuesday it was breaking commercial ties with Air Canada a day after the airline cheap airplane ticket suspended flights to Caracas.
MIAMI – Flying in and out of Venezuela is about to get tougher. Citing concerns about growing violence and the more than $3 billion airlines say they are owed by the Venezuelan government, many carriers are cutting back flights to the South American country. cheap airplane ticket Some have stopped flying there all together.
Air Canada suspended cheap airplane ticket flights this week until further notice amid clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces over crime, human rights violations and food shortages that have left more than 29 dead. The airline issued a statement saying it could “no longer ensure the safety of its operation.”
Flights between Venezuela and neighboring Colombia, a frequent route for business travelers in the region, have also been cut by about 70 percent. Avianca, the third largest foreign carrier servicing Venezuela, has reduced its daily flights between Bogota and Caracas from three trips a day to one.
In May, the airline will eliminate all flights between Bogota cheap airplane ticket and the city of Valencia, the site of deadly protests against Maduro. Avianca cheap airplane ticket said it has made adjustments in some routes, but that Venezuela remains a very important market.
In Venezuela the government acts as a broker in all foreign business dealings. Travelers pay for tickets locally in the national currency, the bolivar, and airlines exchange bolivars for dollars with the approval of a government agency, the Commission for the Administration of Currency cheap airplane ticket Exchange.
Delays cheap airplane ticket at that agency have caused some airlines to not be able to trade bolivares for dollars cheap airplane ticket since 2012, which means they are stuck with a currency that keeps losing value and is not accepted by international creditors.
“It is unacceptable cheap airplane ticket that the Venezuelan government is not playing by the rules set out in treaties it has signed,” said Geneva-based cheap airplane ticket IATA director Tony Tyler in a statement. “Airlines certainly cannot sustain operations indefinitely if they can’t get paid,” he said.
An airline that leaves the country will not return while we are in power, they will have to overthrow us, Maduro said during a March 14 news conference to the carriers cheap airplane ticket that stop flying to Venezuela.
Maduro backer Farias cheap airplane ticket went as far as suggesting that airline ticket prices should be regulated by the government. After a meeting with representatives from several airlines including American Airlines, Avianca and Iberia, the congressman said he would discuss with the president a plan to effort price controls on tickets after following complaints from travelers that the carriers cheap airplane ticket are charging too much.
“As a Venezuelan, knowing the facts every business has to go through, cheap airplane ticket to obtain the foreign currencies from the government, I am considering many of them will reduce their flights to a minimum,” Guilarte Mantellini said.
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