Haiti: US flight ban to Port-au-Prince extended until March

The American Civil Aviation Administration (FAA) announced yesterday, Wednesday, the extension for three more months, until mid-March 2025, of the ban on flights to Port-au-Prince and the overflights of American civilian aircraft over the Haitian capital. The measure, which came into effect a month ago, follows incidents in which three passenger planes were shot at. The FAA, which had partially reopened Haitian airspace on Nov. 20, notified airlines in a message that it was banning flights above 10,000 feet (about 3,050 meters) in certain areas of Haiti “until March 12, 2025.” . The regulator told AFP it was the area of ​​Port-au-Prince, the capital of the poorest Caribbean nation, which is facing a rapid escalation of endemic gang violence. In mid-November, the agency decided to initially ban all flights to Haiti for a month because of targeted fire […]
Source: News Beast

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