A flight from Caracas operated by Turpial Airlines landed Monday afternoon at Bogota’s El Dorado airport, the first time in almost three years after the closure of the Venezuelan-Colombian border that a plane has flown from one country to the other.
The 36 passengers on board flight T9 8820 have been received on Colombian soil by the Colombian Minister of Transport, Guillermo Reyes, the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Germán Umaña, as well as by the Venezuelan Ambassador to Colombia, Felix Plasencia.
«We are ready to receive the first flight from the city of Caracas, together with the Venezuelan ambassador in Colombia Felix Plasencia, ready to reopen this route that many of us have been waiting for!», said the Colombian Minister of Transport in his Twitter account.
Reyes has maintained that there is a «great cooperation» for «these two sister nations» to resume regular air operations, announcing that in the coming days flights from Colombia to Venezuela will start operating.
This is the first plane connecting both Latin American states after March 2020, with the beginning of the pandemic, when flights between Venezuela and Colombia were cancelled in their entirety. When the current Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, took office, he decided to resume relations with Venezuela, after a period of conflict under former president Iván Duque.
In this regard, last week Petro and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, agreed in a meeting to promote transportation between the two countries, among other measures.
