The Civil Aviation Board of the Dominican Republic (JAC) in its last extraordinary session approved 30 new routes to the national operator DW Dominican Wings, S.A. (AraJet). In addition, other international operations such as Avianca and Azur Air were approved.
AraJet’s request was approved by the JAC after going through a public review, and the airline is now authorized to operate scheduled and non-scheduled passenger and cargo air services on international operations from the Dominican Republic to the United States, Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands (Netherlands Antilles) and France (French Caribbean Antilles), using Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
The company expects to start operations in January 2022, according to José Ernesto Marte Piantini, President of the JAC.
AraJet’s (former Flycana) home base will be Santo Domingo (SDQ), the second busiest airport in the Dominican Republic, and it expects to receive shortly the first of its five Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, which will make it the third airline in the Caribbean to operate the fourth generation of the U.S. manufacturer’s aircraft.
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The addition of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 allows the airline to explore medium-range destinations in South America, reaching cities with strong demand to the Dominican Republic such as Bogota, Colombia (BOG) and Lima, Peru (LIM).
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From the United States, the Dominican Republic’s main international market, AraJet has the possibility of entering high passenger demand markets such as New York (JFK) and Newark (EWR), the main destinations in Santo Domingo (SDQ), as well as taking advantage of South Florida destinations such as Miami (MIA), Orlando (MCO) and Fort Lauderdale (FLL).
