Friday, July 29, 2016

Venezuela was once an aviation gateway to South America. Now it’s an outcast.

Venezuela was once an aviation gateway to South America. Now it's an outcast.

Perched on a coastal plain at the very northern tip of South America, Caracas’s Simón Bolívar International Airport was once the aviation gateway to the continent. Charles Lindbergh scouted the airport’s location in 1929, according to Venezuelan aviation lore, and by 1959, Pan Am was routing its New York-Buenos Aires flights with a stop in Caracas. By […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/29/venezuela-was-once-an-aviation-gateway-to-south-america-now-its-an-outcast/

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