Last week, Captain Tomás Aldecoa was appointed director of the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), a position from which he directed the Operational Technical Subdirectorate, but was promoted in substitution of Francis Argueta.
For more than a year, the position was interim occupied by Azucena Zelaya.
As part of the new director’s work strategy, on Tuesday a cooperation agreement was signed for the application of the National Civil Aviation Program, in which the Ministries of Defense, Government, Communications, Foreign Relations and the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT) participate.
Today we are seeing safety issues in aviation and also operational security, that an accident does not occur, that the controllers are trained, that the aeronautical technical staff receives training; That is the plan we have been working, Aldecoa said.
The Deputy Minister of Transportation, of the Ministry of Communications, Fernando Suriano, explained that with this agreement protocols may be implemented in the case of emergencies, for example, if a plane is reached while a plane while it is in flight.
Suriano also reported that there are already advances to define the public-private alliance of the La Aurora International Airport, announced last year by President Bernardo Arévalo.
To do this, the Executive prepares a proposal of the Civil Aviation Law that separates the normative part of the airport operation; However, administrative difficulties have been found, so the process could take longer than expected.
We are working with the World Bank at this time with a road map that the president requested, so that, once the Civil Aviation Law was approved, both the normative and the operational entity can be implemented, Suriano said.