Thousands of passengers stranded at Las Americas International Airport (AILA) for the first two days of the week due to the cancellation of flights to New York due to a snowstorm began to depart for their destinations.
For next Wednesday the flight operations department of the company Dominican Airports XXI (Aerodom) planned about 30 flight operations, mainly to the United Statesallowing these people to take their respective flights.
Prior to departure, stranded passengers must provide the PCR tests required by the North American authorities to enable them to enter their territory.
A significant number of travelers queued in front of the office where the authorized clinical laboratory operates to rerun the test, as the test had expired.
These were concentrated in front of the airline counters on the second floor, waiting to check their documents and show their evidence before boarding the plane.
American Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Delta and United Airlines flights left almost full, in compliance with the sanitary protocols against Covid-19.
That revealed a director of one of the airlines flights departed with an occupancy of 75 and 80% of the plane.
According to the details, some passengers who made urgent reservations for the canceled flights on Monday and Tuesday flew to Miami and then transferred from that city to New York.
A heavy snowstorm wreaked havoc in New York earlier this week. The meteorological situation caused the closure of schools and colleges and the cancellation of thousands of commercial flights across the United States.
It is calculated that About 20 thousand passengers were affected in the Dominican Republic with flight activity cancellations on Monday and Tuesday at airports across the country.