Panama: Air Transport Suspension Extended


News from Panama / Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020

Given the crisis generated by the covid-19 virus, the authorities decided to extend the suspension of international commercial air passenger transport frequencies until 23 May.

The measure was announced by Resolution 053-DG-DJ-AAC, published in the edition of the Official Digital Journal on April 20, 2020. See full document.

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Article 2 of the official document states that “… The measure is applicable to international flights of Commercial Passenger Aviation and General Passenger Aviation.

Exceptions to this measure are humanitarian flights and those necessary to transport products, medical-hospital equipment, medicines, vaccines and any other public health supplies required to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).

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According to CentralAmericaData reports, in this context of health crisis, sales of scheduled air transport services on foreign lines, is one of the economic activities that will register a considerable fall.

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