Commercial flights to Haiti to resume Friday
February 17, 2010 by owner
Filed under Business, United States, World
American Airlines announced Tuesday it will resume commercial flights into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, making it the first airline to do so.
Commercial flights ended on January 12, when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and damaged many of the country’s buildings, including some at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in the capital.
The first flight will depart Miami International Airport in Florida at 6:40 a.m., arriving at 8:35 a.m. in Port-au-Prince, American Airlines said in a news release.
“This is that crack in the dam that we so badly needed and our passengers so badly wanted, to start moving regularly scheduled traffic into and out of Haiti,” spokesman Tim Smith told CNN Radio.
“We’ll start out with three main flights a day from south Florida, two from Miami and one from Fort Lauderdale. Then we’ll also fly a JFK New York flight into Haiti four days a week.”
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