(de Ware Tijd) PARMARIBO – Plans by national airline SLM to expand its operations in Brazil are delayed as the agreement between the two countries containing the details of this expansion is lost.
“We still await Parliament’s approval, but the document has not reached the legislature yet. We are investigating what happened,” says Gerard Brunings, chairman of the airline’s board of directors. The treaty must have gotten lost somewhere between the Ministries of Home Affairs and Transport, Communications and Tourism (TCT) and the State Council. For the time being, the SLM only flies to Belem, while there are plans to add three other destinations in Northern Brazil to the flight schedule. Yet the new routes will likely be opened next year due to the bureaucratic delay.
