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American Airlines 3599, the first nonstop flight between the United States and Venezuela since 2019, departed Miami for Caracas on Thursday. Airline s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en Ireland ce jeudi.

Les faits

• American Airlines 3599, the first nonstop flight between the United States and Venezuela since 2019, departed Miami for Caracas on Thursday.
• Four months after US capture of Nicolás Maduro, officials hail repairing of ties as airliner touches down in Caracas.
• new video loaded: Direct Flights Between U.S. and Venezuela Resume After 7 Years.
• CNN’s David Culver took off on a commercial passenger plane from the US to Venezuela as the countries continue to restore economic ties following the ouster of Venezuela’s strongman leader in January.
• “We are only just getting started,” Barrett told dozens of journalists who had assembled by the runway before Flight 3599 touched down at 1.15pm local time.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, Four months after US capture of Nicolás Maduro, officials hail repairing of ties as airliner touches down in Caracas.

Sur le fond, new video loaded: Direct Flights Between U.S. and Venezuela Resume After 7 Years.

Concrètement, CNN’s David Culver took off on a commercial passenger plane from the US to Venezuela as the countries continue to restore economic ties following the ouster of Venezuela’s strongman leader in January.

Au-delà de ce constat, President Trump had banned direct commercial and cargo flights between the two countries during his first term.

Reste à préciser que On Thursday afternoon it was a very different kind of aircraft that descended towards Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar international airport: an American Airlines passenger jet from Miami, heralding the start of a strange new chapter in the long-toxic ties between Caracas and Washington.

Les chiffres

“We are only just getting started,” Barrett told dozens of journalists who had assembled by the runway before Flight 3599 touched down at 1.15pm local time.

Plus précisément, Direct Flights Between U.S. and Venezuela Resume After 7 Years.

Dans la foulée, as he prepared to check in, Eloy Montenegro, a 71-year-old civil engineer flying to Miami, said the new route would make travel between the US and Venezuela easier.

À ce stade, the last US commercial flight to take off from Caracas did so in March 2019, in Trump’s first term, as relations collapsed amid Trump’s effort to force Maduro from power through sanctions and threats.

Ce qui se dit

“Where are you going?” “To Caracas, my friend, where else?” “We have restored this vital connection between Miami and Caracas.

“This is a historic day,” José Freig, the carrier’s vice-president of international operations, declared before handing Venezuela’s transport minister, Jacqueline Faría, a model of one of his company’s planes.

“But that’s politics – and that’s none of my business,” he added diplomatically before strolling towards the check-in desk past an arch of red, blue and white balloons.

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que Other US airlines had already halted their flights as a result of the political and social turmoil sweeping Venezuela amid one of the world’s worst economic collapses outside a war zone.

“I see it as a viceroyship,” said John Feeley, a veteran former US diplomat in Latin America and ambassador to Panama, of Venezuela’s highly unusual new relationship with the US.

“It’s a powerful king-like figure that extracts rent from overseas territories and the person in charge who makes sure that the king or the crown, or in this case Washington, gets its due is Delcy.”

“It’s not time for elections,” the powerful interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, said on the eve of the flight’s arrival.

“If Donald Trump is an autocratic-style president internally in the United States, what leads one to conclude he would be promoting democracy in another country?”

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À retenir

• As he prepared to check in, Eloy Montenegro, a 71-year-old civil engineer flying to Miami, said the new route would make travel between the US and Venezuela easier.
• The last US commercial flight to take off from Caracas did so in March 2019, in Trump’s first term, as relations collapsed amid Trump’s effort to force Maduro from power through sanctions and threats.
• With each flight, we’re strengthening economic ties.
• Recherches qui explosent : Des B737-9 pour SCAT Airlines !, Malaysia Airlines et Mumbai Indians : une livrée spéciale au service de Visit Malaysia 2026, The Traffic Forecast: March 2026 Air Passenger Market Analysis, Brèves du ciel : Transavia, Ryanair, Ethiopian Airlines, American Airlines, easyJet, Hawaiian Airlines, etc..