AVIANCA Airlines suspends Venezuela operations after threats

[brooklynite]

Airways Magazine:

Avianca Airlines has suspended all flights to Venezuela effective immediately. Even though the carrier initially announced that they will cease service on August 16, the carrier reconsidered the decision due to “some operational limitations.”

According to internal sources (who have asked to remain anonymous), after the news of the suspension was released, Avianca flight crews allegedly received threats of great retaliation from the Venezuelan National Institute of Civil Aviation (INAC) if they suspended their operations; Avianca decided to cease immediately their services.

“We suspend Venezuela operations from today. We believe firmly in maintaining the security of our passengers”.

Both Avianca’s Bogota-Caracas and Lima-Caracas routes are suspended. The airline also suspended yesterday all tickets sales to and from Venezuela.

Maybe Maduro is folling the NK model and cutting off the country from the rest of the world?

[Initech]

1. Smart move for the airline. Dumb move for Venezuela.

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. Avianca also spells "A CIA VAN". Pretty obvious what's going on. nt

[COLGATE4]

3. Shhh. It's supposed to be a secret. nt

[geek tragedy]

4. Is this the first airline to pull out of VZ? nt

[Blue_Tires]

5. Delta is also pulling out:

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1369433