Airports not controlled by INAC are exempted from this provision, which will require the permission of the aviation authority to operate, in order to ensure security measures against the Covid-19 pandemic, the government agency said in a statement.

Likewise, for the supervised opening of general and private aircraft operations, aircraft with more than 180 days without flying must comply with the evaluation process required by the agency.

Since the detection in Venezuela of the first cases of the viral disease in March 2020, the Bolivarian Government decreed the limitation of air operations to a limited number of airports and commercial routes.

To date, only regular flights were authorized to Bolivia, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Russia, Turkey, Cuba, Spain and recently Portugal.

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