Commercial flights between Dominican Republic and Venezuela resume operations

Com­mer­cial flights be­tween the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Venezuela re­sumed on Wednes­day with the re­turn of op­er­a­tions by Laser Air­lines, af­ter near­ly two years of sus­pen­sion that be­gan in Ju­ly 2024.

A flight ar­riv­ing from Cara­cas land­ed and lat­er de­part­ed from Las Améri­c­as In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, restor­ing a key di­rect con­nec­tion be­tween both cap­i­tals as part of bi­lat­er­al agree­ments.

The route will op­er­ate three times a week—Wednes­days, Fri­days, and Sun­days—as the air­line grad­u­al­ly re­builds the air bridge.

Al­though the re­ac­ti­va­tion of flights had been au­tho­rized since Feb­ru­ary by the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Board, op­er­a­tions on­ly be­came ef­fec­tive now with the ar­rival of the first flight, iden­ti­fied as QL 2968 with­in the air­line’s sched­ule.

The restart marks a sig­nif­i­cant step in restor­ing air con­nec­tiv­i­ty and mo­bil­i­ty be­tween both coun­tries fol­low­ing the diplo­mat­ic agree­ments that re­opened the route. —SAN­TO DOMIN­GO, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic (CMC)