potentially hazardous situation<\/a>\u201d when flying over the country.\n <\/p>\n\n Brazil\u2019s Gol, Colombia\u2019s Avianca and TAP Air Portugal canceled their flights departing from Caracas on Saturday, according to Flightradar24 and the official website of Simon BolivarMaiquetia International Airport.\n <\/p>\n
\n Aeronautica Civil de Colombia said in a statement there were \u201cpotential risks\u201d of flying in the Maiquetia area \u201cdue to the deterioration of security conditions and increased military activity in the region.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n TAP Air Portugal confirmed it cancelled its flights scheduled for Saturday and next Tuesday. \u201cThis decision follows information issued by the United States aviation authorities, which indicates that safety conditions in Venezuelan airspace are not guaranteed,\u201d the company told Reuters.\n <\/p>\n
\n Spain\u2019s Iberia also said it was canceling their flights to Caracas from Monday until further notice. The Spanish company\u2019s flight scheduled on Saturday to Madrid from Venezuela\u2019s capital departed.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe company will assess the situation to decide when to resume flights to that country,\u201d an Iberia spokesperson told Reuters.\n <\/p>\n
\n Copa Airlines and Wingo kept their flights departing from Maiquetia on Saturday.\n <\/p>\n
\n The US FAA notice cited the \u201cworsening security situation and heightened military activity in or around Venezuela\u201d and said threats could pose risks for aircraft at all altitudes.\n <\/p>\n
\n There has been a massive American military buildup in the region in recent months, including the US Navy\u2019s largest aircraft carrier, at least eight other warships, and F-35 aircraft.\n <\/p>\n
\n Latam Airlines flight to Bogota scheduled for Sunday has also been canceled, Flightradar24 says.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Three international airlines canceled their flights departing from Venezuela on Saturday, the day after the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-308107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}