Jorge Chavez Airport operates normally despite curfew in Lima and Callao

Lima Airport Partners (LAP) issued a statement stating that Jorge Chavez International Airport maintains its regular operation despite the touch of is in Lima and Callao. However, he recommended contacting his airlines to confirm his flights.

“We suggest that people who have a scheduled flight carry their boarding pass and identity card with them. It is important for passengers to take precautions because transportation may be restricted,” LAP said in its statement.

The airline Latam Peru, for its part, informed its customers that despite the mandatory irremovability order, they will continue their operations and regular flights at Jorge Chávez Airport.

“LATAM Airlines reports that following the presidential announcement that approved the declaration of citizen irremovability in force in Lima and Callao, on Tuesday, April 5, from 02:00am to 11:59pm and adding to the instructions of the concessionaire, passengers with affected and unaffected flights have the same flexibilities for exchanges and/or returns established in the “My Trips” section of latamairlines.com.

However, for the knowledge of our passengers, our aeronautical operation continues as normal, we recommend that our passengers carry their respective identity documents, boarding passes or travel reservations, which may be used as safe conducts before the respective authorities. LATAM Airlines will constantly monitor the situation and will proactively report on any eventuality.

The company regrets the inconvenience this situation has caused its passengers and stresses its commitment to the country's connectivity.”

TAXIS AND RESTRICTED MOBILITY

Following President Pedro Castillo's announcement of declaring a curfew in Lima and Callao, formal and street taxis are not restricted, but due to the immobility measure the unit service has decreased, so it is recommended to order the unit well in advance and arrive at the air terminal in time for your flight.

Pedro Castillo decreed a curfew for Tuesday, April 5, Lima and Callao, following the stoppage of carriers that caused road blocks and riots.

“In view of the acts of violence that some groups have wanted to create (...) and in order to restore peace and internal order (...), the Council of Ministers has approved declaring citizen irremovability (curfew) from 2:00 in the morning until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, in order to safeguard citizen security,” he said Castle in a message to the country around midnight.

The measure, which immediately provoked expressions of rejection on social media, involves leaving the 10 million inhabitants of Lima and Callao locked up in their homes on Tuesday.

The curfew will take effect on Tuesday as the Peruvian economy seeks to leave behind the damage caused by the covid-19 pandemic and to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the self-coup d'état of the now-imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, on April 5, 1992.

The restriction of movement, under the cover of a state of emergency in the Peruvian capital, immediately received expressions of repudiation.

“Curfew to restore order, an authoritarian measure of the Pedro Castillo government that demonstrates inadequacy, inability to govern. It's like ending traffic accidents by banning the circulation of vehicles,” said political analyst Luis Benavente.

“The measure issued by President Pedro Castillo is openly unconstitutional, disproportionate and violates people's right to individual liberty,” tweeted lawyer Carlos Rivera, one of the defenders of the victims of the Fujimori government.

For her part, journalist Rosa María Palacios wrote on Twitter: “At the end of midnight there is no way to report and be informed. Such a radical, rights-violating and disproportionate measure only reveals that the government has lost all control of public order.”

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