More Venezeula problems

MiAAmi

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Statement of American Airlines
Monday April 3, 4:54 pm ET


MIAMI, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines released the following statement regarding the decision by the Venezuelan aeronautical authorities not to allow a fourth daily flight between Miami and Caracas to begin today.

The fourth Miami-Caracas, Venezuela, daily flight, which had been scheduled to resume service today after being cancelled in January due to road conditions between the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia and Caracas, will not operate as previously scheduled.

American will continue to operate the rest of its schedule between the U.S. and Venezuela. Currently, in the Caracas market, American operates three daily flights from Miami; one daily flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico; one flight five times per week from Dallas/Fort Worth and one flight two times per week from New York/Kennedy. Additionally, the airline has one daily flight between Miami and Maracaibo, Venezuela.

The fourth Miami-Caracas flight was scheduled to operate with Airbus-300 equipment with capacity for 267 passengers. Flight 903 was scheduled to depart Miami today at 4:15 p.m. and arrive in Caracas at 7:27 p.m. Flight 902 was scheduled to depart Caracas tomorrow, April 4, at 7:20 a.m. and arrive in Miami at 10:43 a.m.

"American Airlines would like to apologize to our passengers for the inconvenience that this flight cancellation may cause. Due to heavy passenger traffic between these two destinations, the ability to re-book customers is limited.

"We were under the impression that once an agreement between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments had been reached last week to allow service by U.S. airlines to continue as previously scheduled, that American would be able to restore this service.

"We are proud of the service we have provided to Venezuela for more than 18 years and of our more than 200 Venezuelan employees. We are hopeful that this situation will be resolved shortly and that American's service will continue as scheduled."
 
Statement of American Airlines

I smell a lawsuit by the customers happening, especially if AA never said while they were booking the tickets that this flight could be cancelled(it was known it could happen), and they will not rebook, as it seems from the statement of full flights.
 
If you really read the statement, it never said they wouldn't be rebooked, only that it would be limited, ie. dificult. All they need to do is put an A300 back on the last flight and then the problem is mostly solved.
 
If you read the really, really fine print, there's most likely a disclaimer about all reservations being "subject to governmental approval" which pretty much covers the situation here.
 
We may be stretched to the limit on the number of wars we can fight simultaneously, but I can only hope that any missiles we fire toward Venezuela take out that crackpot Cindy Sheehan along with Chavez.
 
So, you're saying that Cindy Sheehan isn't a crackpot?...

Even the diehard Dixie Democrats I have been known to hang out with think she's off the deep end and then some.


We don't need to go to war with Venezuela. All the US has to do is threaten to revoke the current bilateral agreement, and they're more or less cut off from the global transportation network. That's far more powerful of a weapon, and Chavez knows it, which is why he didn't go so far as to threaten to revoke the MIA-CCS route when he suspended DL and CO's services.