Central American airline TACA is to resume full scheduled flights to Tegucicalpa's Toncontin International Airport on 15 August after a two and a half month absence following May’s fatal overrun at this airport.
The airport of the Honduran capital has remained closed to larger jet aircraft since a TACA Airbus A320 runway overrun in May, which left five people dead. Since then larger jets have been blocked from operating at the airport.
Initial plans called for keeping the airport closed until a nearby US air base could be opened to commercial traffic. But while the Honduran Government has made no formal declaration, local press reports says no final agreement over the air base has been reached, effectively triggering a decision to cautiously re-open Toncontin for those Airbus and Boeing jets which can demonstrate required runway performance.
An airport source says that revised operational procedures are being prepared to make the operation "absolutely safe", adding that TACA has been performing several Airbus A319-operated test flights as part of the flight resumption.
Other international airlines have already restarted operations at Tegucicalpa, or have declared their intention to do so, including Panama's Copa and American Airlines.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
Fonte: flight Safety Information 12/08/2008.
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