American Airlines Seeks DOT Approval to Resume U.S. Flights to Venezuela

American Airlines has filed with the U.S. Transportation Department to operate U.S. flights to Caracas and Maracaibo via Miami using Envoy, its wholly owned regional carrier. The filing follows the rescission of a 2019 ban on U.S. flights to Venezuela by Secretary Sean Duffy at the direction of the Trump administration. Services are expected to resume pending government approval and security assessments, marking the first such flights in over six years.