Tame (Ecuadorian state) airline suspends Quito-Caracas flights for lack of payments

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http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/140123/aerolinea-tame-suspende-vuelos-a-caracas-por-atraso-con-divisas

Airline money from ticket sales is located in Banco Central de Venezuela. Flights will resume when the airline receives the money it claims is owed.
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Quito.- La aerolínea estatal ecuatoriana Tame anunció hoy que dejará de dar servicio temporalmente a la ruta Quito-Caracas al no poder cobrar 43 millones de dólares que están en el Banco Central de Venezuela.

La suspensión entrará en vigor desde este jueves y con ella se reducen de nueve a ocho las rutas que mantenía en el exterior la compañía aérea, señaló el gerente general de Tame, Fernando Guerrero, citado por la agencia pública Andes, reseñó Efe.

El dinero se encuentra en las cuentas de la aerolínea y corresponde a venta de boletos en Venezuela desde abril de 2013.

El gerente señaló que se devolverá el importe de los pasajes a los viajeros que tenían boletos comprados, a quienes se ha comenzado a avisar para que no acudan al aeropuerto.

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1. English - Ecuadorean airline halts flights to Venezuela.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Ecuadorean airline Tame suspended on Thursday its once-daily flights to and from Venezuela until that country's cash-strapped government pays it $43 million owed for ticket sales.

The carrier was the first to halt flights to Venezuela, whose socialist government owes carriers a total of $3.3 billion, according to Venezuela's airlines association.

The airlines are victims of Venezuela's rigid currency controls, which prevent them from repatriating proceeds from tickets sold in the oil-rich South American country. Adding to difficulties, Venezuela's bolivar has plunged to a tenth of its official value on the black market, making tickets purchased in Venezuela some of the cheapest in the world in dollar terms.

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In Venezuela, the TV station Globovision reported on Thursday that Air Canada had stopped selling tickets in the country. No one answered the phone at Air Canada's offices in Caracas and a local call center worker told The Associated Press that she had received orders to suspend all sales and reservations. She said she was not authorized to give her name.

http://news.yahoo.com/ecuadorean-airline-halts-flights-venezuela-225345221--finance.html

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2. They will need boats to get out.

Maybe they need to talk to Cuban refugees. They have a long raft building tradition.