United Airlines Suspends Flights to Venezuela Starting July

Service consisted of daily flights between Caracas and Houston
The route isn’t meeting ‘financial expectations,’ carrier says

United Continental's new 747 sits on the tamarac before taking off from San Francisco's International Airport in San Francisco, CA, on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Kim White/Bloomberg News
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By Andrea Wong and Jonathan Gilbert

June 3, 2017 at 9:10 PM UTC

Updated on

June 3, 2017 at 10:45 PM UTC

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United Airlines Inc. will suspend flights to Venezuela next month, a move that further cuts off access to the Latin American nation engulfed in violent political protests and economic chaos.

The daily service between Houston and Caracas will be canceled because of low demand, United spokesman Charles Hobart said in an email. “Because our Houston-Caracas service is not meeting our financial expectations we have decided to suspend it, effective July 1,” he said.