Um… wow, now that is an unique flight!
Conviasa, the nationwide airline of Venezuela, will shortly be resuming nonstop flights between Caracas, Venezuela, and Damascus, Syria. The route will function for the month of March 2020, with flights kicking off on March 2, 2020 (I’m undecided if the route will proceed past that, or what, however as of now the schedule solely exhibits flights by way of the tip of March).
The ~6,600 mile flight will likely be operated as soon as weekly utilizing the airline’s solely A340-200. The flight is blocked at 12hr30min eastbound and 15hr westbound.
Tickets at the moment are on sale for this flight, which can function with the next schedule:
Caracas to Damascus departing four:00PM arriving 10:30AM (+1 day)
Damascus to Caracas departing 10:30AM arriving 7:30PM
The airplane will sit on the bottom in Damascus for 24 hours, presumably in order that the crew can relaxation after which fly again with the airplane, moderately than having to spend greater than every week in Syria.
Tickets on this flight at the moment are bookable for March 2020, and roundtrip fares are a steep ~$1,700. Curiously Conviasa’s A340s are in a one cabin configuration, that includes simply economic system seats. On condition that this flight is presumably motivated by political causes, I’m a bit stunned that the individuals who could also be behind this flight would “settle” for economic system.
Or possibly this flight isn’t in any respect about what’s within the cabin, however moderately what’s within the cargo maintain?
This isn’t the primary time that the airline has served the route, as in addition they flew it again in 2012.
Conviasa operates a fleet of about 18 planes, together with one A340-200, one 737-200, and 16 Embraer 190s.
This would be the solely route the airline operates exterior of North & South America.
This isn’t the primary “uncommon” flight we’ve seen to & from Venezuela. Again in April 2019, Iran’s Mahan Air operated a flight between Tehran and Caracas with an A340-600. On the time there have been discussions of normal flights being operated, although nothing appeared to come back of that.
So yeah, I like reviewing distinctive airways on unique flights, however I believe I’ll be sitting this one out (and never simply because there’s no first or enterprise class).
(Tip of the hat to @fotograaf, featured picture courtesy of Andres Ramirez)
