What Travelers Need to Know About Flights to Venezuela

What Travelers Need to Know About Flights to Venezuela outlines how the country’s recent earthquakes are disrupting aviation operations, with restrictions expected to last through early July. Six days after powerful back-to-back earthquakes, air travel remains severely restricted as Venezuela’s primary airport, Simón Bolívar International near Caracas in La Guaira state, was damaged and is indefinitely closed to commercial traffic. Several carriers, including American Airlines and Copa Airlines, have canceled flights through July 2 or 3, though reopening is not guaranteed. Some military and aid flights have continued to land after a U.S. military clearance of one of two runways. American canceled its Miami-to-Caracas route, offered fee waivers for June 25–July 3, and plans to resume when commercial service returns; it also scheduled Miami-to-Maracaibo service for July 14. United plans no immediate schedule changes while preparing Houston-to-Caracas nonstop service in August.