JetBlue extends Port Au Prince flight suspension through April 2026

The ongoing civil unrest in Haiti recently led to a decision to hiatus JetBlue flights to Port-au-Prince through April and till June 11th 2025. JetBlue Airways came up with operations from New York and South Florida to Port-au-Prince, the routes initially suspended from November 2024 until April 30th. So far within a week later, the US Federal Aviation Administration imposed a flight ban on commercial & cargo carriers to Haiti due to worsening gang violence.

Although the FAA ban on flights into Haiti is set to expire on March 12th, the recent data cerium data scheduled future commercial air travel shows no activity from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Toussaint Louverture International Airport; Haiti-its far out as September 2025 through April 2026. 

More on the current flight ban to PAP 

The Miami Herald even covered the Haiti flight ban on March 6. JetBlue is the only airline that offers non-stop flights from New York and South Florida to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The JetBlue's spokesperson stated to the Herald over the safety situation at the airport;

"Our top priority remains the safety and well-being of our customers and crew members. Due to the ongoing civil unrest in Haiti, we have decided to suspend all flights to and from the country through at least June 11, 2025. We will monitor the situation closely and update our plans as necessary."

Such reasons why the FAA imposed the ban on flights in the first place to gangs—entering the airport & firing upon three US flights. Even on One Spirit Airlines flight injured. The violent gang even tried to control all the major highways in & out of Port-au-Prince—leaving the capital a risky prospect for foreign travellers.

Gang violence affects other aspects of Aviation

A report on safety for airlines in Haiti—flights into the country experience-says by Miami Herald. The government announced the reopening of the Port-au-Prince primary international airport services. Sunrise Airways, the leading domestic airline in Haiti, notified passengers that the carrier would only be resuming operations over certain conditions that were met: "the re-establishment of insurance coverage."

Haiti offers an alternative to PAP 

Typically, gangs in Haiti even ensure not only threaten the airport & control the highway to the capital. This analysis is according to an analysis by Osprey Flight Solutions cited by the Miami Times. The gangs even control the area in front of the State's vehicle insurance office in Tabarre. In fact the area surrounding the US embassy in Port-au-Prince.

Since calling the Port-au-Port airport isn't safe, usable, the domestic Antonine Simon International Airport has been announced by Haiti's Transitional President Council as capable of receiving international flights. 

Talking about the other operational service-Cap-Haitien International Airport. Although sunrise airways operates limited services to Miami International Airport—all along with regional flights to the Bahamas & the Turk & Caicos.

So far, airport authorities have spent weeks completing renovations on the runways at CYA—extending it from 4,265 feet to 5,905, thus making it capable of serving jetliners. However, there may still be some months before enough orders are received to resort to flying commercial jets to the airport safely.