The agreement, awaiting president Leonel Fernandez’s signature, would be in effect for one year and would apply to private and sport aviation which use aircraft of up to 12 passengers and 30,000 pounds of freight.
Passengers wouldn’t have to pay the US$16.30 entrance or exit fee and other charges applied to the airline ticket which add up to almost 100 dollars.
Airports Department director Andres Vanderhorst said the agreement aims to spur operations at the Maria Montez airport, inaugurated more than 10 years ago. “This incentive will set for a dynamics which will let air lines from Puerto Rico, which we’ve talked with, have direct roundtrip flights to Barahona.”
The official, in a visit to the national air show in Oshkosh, said two Jetstream planes, operated by a Puerto Rican airline, are ready to fly to Barahona with 19 passengers each, as part of the projects to re-launch the activities at the Maria Montez terminal.
He added that because the incentives will be significantly lower airfare prices, two other Puerto Rican tour operators also plan direct flights to Barahona,
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