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President Donald Trump informed airways on Saturday to contemplate the airspace above Venezuela closed.
“To all Airways, Pilots, Drug Sellers, and Human Traffickers, please contemplate THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump mentioned in a publish on Reality Social.
Trump’s feedback come a couple of week after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warned airways about flying over Venezuela. The FAA issued a discover urging airways to “train warning” as a result of “probably hazardous scenario” within the area.
“Operators are suggested to train warning when working within the Maiquetia flight data area in any respect altitudes as a result of worsening safety scenario and heightened army exercise in or round Venezuela,” the FAA advisory had mentioned.
President Donald Trump participates in a name with service members on Thanksgiving, in Palm Seaside, Fla., on Nov. 27, 2025. (Anna Rose Layden/Reuters / Reuters)
“Threats might pose a possible danger to plane in any respect altitudes, together with throughout overflight, the arrival and departure phases of flight, and/or airports and plane on the bottom,” it added, requesting airways to supply no less than 72-hour advance discover to the FAA in the event that they plan to fly by way of the world.
Some worldwide airways then canceled their flights to Venezuela following the FAA’s warning.
Direct flights from U.S. passenger and cargo carriers to Venezuela have been suspended since 2019, however some airways nonetheless fly over the nation on their South American routes, in accordance to Reuters.
“Since September 2025, there was a rise in World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) interference within the Maiquetia Flight Info Area (SVZM FIR), in addition to exercise related to growing Venezuela army readiness,” the FAA additionally mentioned.
“Some civil plane not too long ago reported GNSS interference whereas transiting the SVZM FIR, which, in some instances, prompted lingering results all through the flight. GNSS jammers and spoofers can have an effect on plane out to 250 nautical miles and might impression all kinds of vital communication, navigation, surveillance, and security gear on plane,” the FAA continued.
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