Venezuelan airline Avior is asking regulators for permission to resume nonstop service to the U.S.
In a recent filing with the Transportation Department, the carrier noted President Donald Trump’s Jan. 29 announcement that he will soon open Venezuelan airspace to U.S. carriers. The department has prohibited commercial and cargo flights to and from the country since 2019.
Avior is looking to restart one route it already has authorization for, between Barcelona, Venezuela, and Miami, and to launch three new ones: Caracas to Miami; Maracaibo, Venezuela, to Miami; and Barcelona to Houston.
“For administrative convenience and to ensure Avior’s economic authority is up to date in preparation for the resumption of U.S. service, Avior respectfully requests that the department, in a single Notice of Action Taken in a new docket, approve this application and contemporaneously renew Avior’s current exemption authority which has long been pending under Part 377,” the airline wrote. “Avior requests that its exemption authority be granted for a period of two years.”
Avior flies mainly within Venezuela but also has routes to neighboring Colombia. Its main hub is at General José Antonio Anzoátegui International Airport in Barcelona.
Several international airlines – some of which stopped flying to Venezuela nearly a decade ago – are rushing to reconnect the country following Trump’s pronouncement.
American Airlines said last week that it will resume daily nonstop service to Venezuela, and on Thursday, Colombian carrier Avianca said it will restart flights between Bogotá and Caracas on Feb. 12.
