27.10.2020 - 03:19 UTC
Several airlines are resuming commercial flights to Paraguay following the reopening of the country’s main international airports, Asuncion and Ciudad del Este, after having been closed for seven months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines resuming flights in the coming weeks include Air Europa (UX, Palma de Mallorca), Amaszonas Uruguay (Z7, Montevideo), Avianca (AV, Bogotá), Copa Airlines (CM, Panamá City Tocumen Int'l), LATAM Airlines Group, and Paranair (ZP, Asuncion), reports Aviacionline.
Speaking at a reopening ceremony in Asunción attended by President Marito Abdo Benitez on October 22, 2020, Paraguayan civil aviation authority (DINAC) president Félix Kanazawa said commercial flight operations were expected to normalise from November. The country’s airports closed on March 24, 2020, only remaining operational for humanitarian and cargo flights. Since September, air bubble flights have been operating between Paraguay and Uruguay, reported news agency IP.
According to the ch-aviation schedules module, the first airline to resume scheduled services has been Paranair, returning with weekly flights to Montevideo on October...