After a roughly seven-year pause, American Airlines is once again selling tickets to Venezuela.
The carrier announced Monday that daily nonstop service between Miami and Caracas will resume on April 30. The airline had put forward April 30 as a potential restart date earlier this month, but officially confirmed it on Monday.
Flights will depart Miami at 10:16 a.m. Eastern Time and arrive in Caracas at 1:36 p.m. Return flights will leave Caracas at 2:40 p.m. Eastern Time and land in Miami at 6:13 p.m.
The connection will be operated by American subsidiary Envoy using Embraer E175 dual-class aircraft.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security banned all commercial passenger and cargo flights between the U.S. and Venezuela in 2019 over concerns about the safety of passengers and crews. That order was lifted in late January following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Relations between the two countries have somewhat normalized in the months since. In March, the Department of Transportation approved American’s request to reconnect Caracas and Maracaibo, which is located in western Venezuela.
American has the strongest Caribbean and South American network of any U.S. airline, and was seen as a likely candidate to kick off the return of U.S. carriers to Venezuela.
