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OSHKOSH, Wisconsin. - The airport authorities have reached an agreement with the company that manages most Dominican airports Aerodom, to provide a discount of almost 100 dollars for the airlines and passengers who use Barahona’s Maria Montez International Airport, to spur flights to the country’s south region.
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,
SOURCE: listindiario.com.do
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Qué mierda esta! Stop ineffective government procurement. No todo lo que brilla es oro...
People are religous so perhaps a small cathedral or place of pilgrimage could be be managed. A Marian Shrine?
Knock was underdeveloped till the international airport opened.
http://www.gobarahona.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=37
http://www.knock-shrine.ie/
But great to let the airport function!
S.
Domincian Today should feel shame for passing on a "trip report" by these big yipeta griftgers as a press release.
Just think! Two Bonanazas a year might land with their blonde, straight-toothed, blue-eyed fat brats and fly back AA, because once landed they'll never get their kites tuned up and out again, not from a Dominican airport -- specially an old and closed one. That's nearly a 3000 mile set of hops for FAMILIES (that's who "fly-ins" are) on a week's vacation. IT'S A BOONDOGGLE WITH YOUR CDEE MONEY, TURKEYS!
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Just another boondoggle to where? Wisconsin? Oh yeah. Those Swedes really have a yen to fly their Piper Cubs OVER the Bahamas, OVER the whole DR, and in to where? Barahona? Why not Lago Enriquillo? etc...."
pelalut, you are a real bigot. Stay in the US and crap it up there with your presence.
Actual turist flights of small planes can't be more than 100 a year, if you don't count the businessmen or criminals. Yacht arrivals, on the other hand are well over a thousand. Little Luperón alone gets 7-800 each year.
Yachts bring respectable, wealthy retired people and a few yuppie runaways, also well-heeled. They aren't big spenders, but a a good hunk of their pensions fall on the streets of the towns near where they anchor. Based on a survey taken in 2002, their money rains on the locals at the rate of $800-1200/month per boat. At that time that meant $72,000/mo for little Luperón.
All-Inclusive Resort tourists, according to a Caribbean-wide study, leave only 3% of their spent money in the coountry, while the boat crowd leaves 100% of what they spend. The Yachties stay and use the town for 2 weeks to several months, while the resort turists stay inside
And now the guardians of the country talk about "investing" in fly-in tourism?