Flüge von/nach Venezuela auf Monate ausgebucht - mit Kreditkarten:

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Planning to fly to Venezuela? Why you should make other plans

CARACAS - If you live in Venezuela and want to fly abroad, get in line.

Flights are booked solid months in advance, not from a new interest in exotic destinations but because locals are profiting from a play on the nation's tightly controlled currency market. (...)

Credit cards are used abroad to get a cash advance -- rather than buying merchandise. The dollars are then carried back into Venezuela and sold on the black market for some seven times the original exchange rate.

The large profit margin easily absorbs the cost of flights and accommodation for a trip.(...)

Some Venezuelans do not even bother leaving the country, but merely send their credit cards to friends overseas, who swipe the cards and send the cash back to Venezuela.

"This is the reason many airlines are sending half-empty planes," (...)

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2013/09/2...ake-other-plans

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