Half of Venezuela flights cancelled

委内瑞拉一半航班取消

World Business Report

2025-11-26

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An airline industry body in Venezuela tells Will Bain flights in and out the country have already been cut by half, with major disruption looming as a dispute over the safety of Venezuelan airspace intensifies. Also, are American consumers starting to feel the pinch? We examine a series of data points suggesting confidence may be on the wane. And how a misplaced passkey left one of the world’s leading internet security firms red-faced. (Photo by MIGUEL GUTIERREZ/EPA/Shutterstock: Passengers wait in a line at Simon Bolivar International Airport, which serves Caracas, in Maiquetia, Venezuela, 24 November 2025.)
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  • Venezuela fears it's being cut off as more flights are cancelled to and from the country.

  • We lost 50% of our weekly flight.

  • The airport here is very empty right now.

  • That's World Business Report on the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Will Bayne and in just a moment we'll hear from Venezuela's airline association on what impact those cancellations are already having.

  • And also today,

  • how a lost pasquie caused red faces for one of the world's leading internet security organisations.

  • The airline association of Venezuela has told World Business Report that around 50% of all the flights in and out the country have been lost already,

  • with more international airlines cancelling flights for the coming days.

  • You won't remember that all of this started on Friday when the United States Aviation Regulator warned of heightened military activity in the area amid a build-up of American forces in the region.

  • Many airlines from Europe,

  • North America and the rest of South America promptly cancelled flights to and from Caracas.

  • which led on Tuesday to Venezuela's National Civil Aviation Institute,

  • apparently threatening to pull air traffic rights from several Spanish airlines

  • if they did not resume operations in the next two days.

  • Maricela Luisa is the president of both Venezuela's Tourism Council and the Airline Association of Venezuela,

  • the body that represents commercial airlines.