American Airlines has begun selling flights between Miami and Caracas, with dates available starting April 30, after a nearly seven-year suspension.<\/p>\n
The option is already live on the airline\u2019s platform, though\u2014for now at least\u2014the biggest hurdle may be the price.<\/p>\n
In searches on American Airlines\u2019 system, round-trip tickets for late April top $2,700, while in May prices dip slightly to just over $1,000. Still, it\u2019s important to keep in mind that fares may change.<\/p>\n
For comparison, flights to other destinations in the region, such as Bogot\u00e1, are holding at around $300 for the same dates.<\/p>\n
On April 9, American Airlines announced it was awaiting government approval to resume service.<\/p>\n
In that statement, the company said that once government approvals and security checks are complete, it expects to offer one daily nonstop flight between Miami (MIA) and Caracas (CCS) \u201cas soon as April 30.\u201d<\/p>\n
The flights would be operated on Embraer 175 aircraft by Envoy, a subsidiary of American Airlines Group.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerican was the first airline to announce plans to restart service to Venezuela, and we\u2019re encouraged by the progress we\u2019ve made with both governments,\u201d said Nate Gatten, executive vice president of American Eagle, Corporate Real Estate and Government Affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate the efforts of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; and the entire administration for helping us reconnect the United States with Venezuela. Our return wouldn\u2019t be possible without this strong partnership,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerican\u2019s Miami hub is the United States\u2019 primary gateway to Latin America, and our service to Venezuela is a key part of our past and our future,\u201d said Nat Pieper, the airline\u2019s chief commercial officer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur commitment to connecting Venezuela with the United States spans more than 30 years, and we look forward to the new trade opportunities and stronger ties with family and friends that this service will make possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
American Airlines began operating in Venezuela in 1987 and suspended its flights in 2019.<\/p>\n
This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC 6 editor reviewed the translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Airlines has begun selling flights between Miami and Caracas, with dates available starting April 30, after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,4390],"class_list":["post-238988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}