US airline resumes direct flights to major world capital for the first time in 7 years — after Trump’s intervention
Direct flights from the US to to the world capital have resumed for the first time in nearly a decade
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World News US airline resumes direct flights to major world capital for the first time in 7 years — after Trump’s intervention By Alex Oliveira Published April 30, 2026, 3:08 p.m. ET Direct flights from the US to Venezuela have resumed for the first time in nearly a decade – just months after the US toppled the Latin American nation’s despotic dictator, Nicolas Maduro. An American Airlines flight took off from Miami Thursday around 10:15 a.m., and was expected to land in Caracas about by the afternoon. That was the first direct flight from the US to Venezuela in seven years – and the departure was celebrated with arcs of water sprayed across the runway as the American plane passed underneath.
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