The Panamanian Copa Airlines announced this Wednesday that it is temporarily suspending its flights to and from Caracas “due to intermittencies in one of the navigation signals”, an announcement that comes after many airlines decided to stop flying to Venezuela after warning the US president, donald trumpthat the airspace over the country should be considered “entirely closed.”
“Copa Airlines informs that, due to intermittencies in one of the aircraft navigation signals reported by our pilots today – a situation that at no time compromised the operational safety— we have taken the preventive decision to temporarily suspend flights to and from Caracas on Thursday, December 4 and Friday, December 5, 2025,” the airline reported in a brief statement.
Copa Airlines indicated that they will continue “evaluating the situation” and will share “new information in the next 24 hours“.
The decision of Copa Airlines It comes at a critical moment in Venezuela, accentuated since last Saturday Trump said on the social network Truth that Venezuela’s airspace would remain closed “in its entirety,” in the midst of the increasing tension between Washington and Caracas and the great military deployment American in the Caribbean.
They ask to take caution
Before, on November 21, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAAin English) of the United States had urged “extreme caution” when flying over Venezuela and the southern Caribbean in the face of what it considers “a potentially dangerous” in the area.
For this reason, several airlines canceled their flights, and the Venezuelan Ministry of Transportation and the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC) revoked the flight concession to several of them, a decision that affected Iberia, TAP, Avianca, Latam Colombia, Turkish Airlines and Gol, accusing them of “joining the terrorist actions“promoted by the United States.
- Copa Airlines Until now, it remained one of the few airlines that had not canceled flights to Caracasas well as others from Colombia and Bolivia, although he did not directly link the decision to the crisis between the US and Venezuela.
The tension between Washington and Caracas has been on the rise after military deployment American in the Caribbean, defended by the White House as part of its strategy against drugs from Latin America, but which the Chavista Administration calls a “threat” and an attempt to promote a regime change.
