Venezuela and Russia Sign New Agreement for Reactivate Tourist Flights
Airbus 340-600, part of the Venezuela’s Conviasa air flotilla. Photo:X/ @LAConviasa
June 8, 2025 Hour: 3:16 pm
Venezuela and Russia signed a new agreement for the reactivation of tourist flights, with which the Caribbean country wants to make known destinations such as the island of Margarita and Canaima.
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Through a press release, the Minister of Tourism, Leticia Gomez, indicated that the reactivation of these flights will be made from August, after a signature between the operators Venezolana de Turismo (Venetur) and Pegas Touristik.
Gomez pointed out that this three-year agreement provides for a weekly flight with capacity for 430 tourists, “who will know destinations such as the island of Margarita, Canaima and eastern Venezuela” and assured that in the rest of the year they foresee the visit of 15,480 travelers coming from Russia.
In late 2022, the Government of Venezuela celebrated the agreements that made it “possible to open two weekly flights” between Moscow and the Venezuelan island of Margarita, with which “more than 15,000 Russian tourists” visited the Caribbean nation.
In early May, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, signed a Strategic Association and Cooperation Agreement, which consolidates, according to the Russian Presidency, the “high level reached by Russian-Venezuelan relations and establishes the basic principles and guidelines for the future development of long-term cooperation.”
Putin highlighted, in a meeting with Maduro who visited Moscow on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations, that the trade volume ($200 million) between both countries increased by 64% in 2024 and stressed the “good prospects” in many areas such as energy, transport, logistics, health and pharmaceuticals.
Maduro also expressed his confidence that the strategic association and cooperation agreement with Moscow will allow relations to “flourish” between Russia, “today the main power of humanity,” and Venezuela, “fighting for the ideal of Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez.”
Source: VTV // EFE
