At least three airlines operating in Nicaragua recently announced an extension to the resumption date of operations that are suspended due to the pandemic of the new SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Aeroméxico, which was the last airline that remained operating in the country, reported through its website that operations remain suspended until June 30, 2020 and will resume from July 1 in Nicaragua.
This airline was scheduled to resume on June 1, however, it made a modification to its operations. Of the flights to Central America, the resumption date in Nicaragua, which coincides with that of Guatemala, is the latest. With the exception of Panama where the airline has canceled its operations and “will not resume,” according to the airline.
In the case of Honduras and El Salvador, operations are suspended until May 31 and will resume on June 1. Meanwhile, in Costa Rica, flights will resume on June 15 with 2 weekly flights.
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For its part, the airline Copa Airlines had planned to resume on June 8, now it states that it will be next July 3, 2020 “once it receives the permits required by the corresponding authorities of the other countries in the region,” reads in your website.
In the case of Nicaragua, the Daniel Ortega regime has not ordered the closure of borders as a concrete measure to prevent the spread of the virus, since it has not imposed restrictions on travelers from countries with a high rate of Covid cases. 19.
While it resumes operations, Copa Airlines assured that it will increase humanitarian flights for citizens of different countries who were stranded by the measures imposed by the countries due to the pandemic.
Delta Airlines recently confirmed to THE PRESS that he was withdrawing from Nicaragua indefinitely and that represented “a difficult decision that will also affect a city in Mexico,” according to Elizabeth Ninomiya, manager of Strategic Communications for Latin America and the Caribbean at Delta.
On its website, the airline details that the resumption of operations for Central America could start in June.
On American Airlines, the United States embassy in Nicaragua issued a statement where it assures that the airline has suspended its operations until July 7, 2020, this airline had planned to resume on June 4. On Spirit Airlines, the embassy had already reported that operations were suspended until July 5.
Airlines operating in Latin America and the world have been affected by the measures that countries have implemented to reduce the spread of the new virus that has spread to more than 4 million people and has killed more than 300,000.
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