Valencia, Venezuela...
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I believe they are still awaiting the authority to fly the route from the Venezuelan Gov.
April 8th, IIRC, was the original start date. The Venezuela's INAC, who are acting like complete a**holes, have not approved American's application. In response, Venezuela's Avior has an application for Miami-Valencia that has yet to be approved by DOT.
AA is still working closely with Valencia airport officials to get this approved ASAP, but INAC doesn't seem to want to give consumers in Valencia choice.
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Hmmm.... I seem to recall saying that given Hugo's desire to be the next Castro, it was more likely to see snow in Phoenix for the 4th of July than it was for this route to be inagurated. Looks like that's what's happening, eh?
Expect snow in Phoenix then.
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Don't be so sure, Mark. We had a long-time client in Venezuela who was having to buy dollars on the grey market just to pay their invoices to us (our contracts are either in USD or EUR, and they couldn't do Euro's either). We had to finally cut them off after being six months behind in their invoices.
The fact is that Dolara's influence is a shadow of what it used to be, and Venezuela is now run by an ideological dictator who seems more than willing to cut ties with the US. He's already got money from their oil reserves, so what exactly does AA have to offer him that he can't get elsewhere, i.e. from Mexico or Colombia?
The fact is that Dolara's influence is a shadow of what it used to be, and Venezuela is now run by an ideological dictator who seems more than willing to cut ties with the US. He's already got money from their oil reserves, so what exactly does AA have to offer him that he can't get elsewhere, i.e. from Mexico or Colombia?
He has the interests of his own national airlines plans to fly to the United States in mind. A plan that won't happen until AA is landing in Valencia.
