Arajet requires open skies with the US to create a hub and be competitive

The Dominican airline Arajet seeks the approval of the bill for the promotion of Dominican aviation, because the regulation will allow the company to be competitive against international lines.

In this sense, its CEO, Víctor Miguel Pacheco, stated that the DR must be prepared from the legislative and regulatory point of view, so that the conditions are created fiscally so that Arajet can compete on equal terms with the other hubs, from Panama, Florida, Atlanta and Bogota.

“Today we are very uneven,” he emphasized, according to Listín Diario.

He affirmed that the preliminary project seeks to encourage investment and sustainability of an operations center (air hub) for the Dominican Republic, which rests with the Executive Power and that despite being advanced, because they have been working on it for several years, and help is needed everyone, including the president, ministers and the population in general.

“The first thing that Arajet needs is a bill that allows us to compete on equal terms, the second is an open skies agreement between the DR and the United States, and the third is a terminal that allows us to do what Tocumen is doing in Panama,” he said.

Another important point that the airline advocates is that the Dominican Government implement open skies with the United States, with the aim of being able to provide the service to the diaspora, where they would have 17 destinations, since the agreement that is currently in force dates from 1940 .

“The Dominican Republic, Cuba and Venezuela are the only countries that do not have an open skies agreement with the US. Open skies is equivalent to economic flights, it is equivalent to no monopoly, it is equivalent to free competition and all of this benefits the Dominican,” he stressed. Pacheco.