US based car­ri­er, Jet­Blue Air­ways has pushed back the re­sump­tion of its flights the Tou­s­saint Lou­ver­ture In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port , cit­ing on­go­ing civ­il un­rest and se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

The air­line had pre­vi­ous­ly sus­pend­ed flights un­til April 30, but now says ser­vice will re­main halt­ed un­til at least June 11, 2025.

A spokesper­son for Jet­Blue told the Mi­a­mi Her­ald – ” Our top pri­or­i­ty re­mains the safe­ty and well-be­ing of our cus­tomers and crew mem­bers. Due to the on­go­ing civ­il un­rest in Haiti, we have made the de­ci­sion to sus­pend all flights to and from the coun­try through at least June 11, 2025. We will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion close­ly and up­date our plans as nec­es­sary.”

The an­nounce­ment comes just one week be­fore the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FAA) is set to de­cide whether to lift or ex­tend its ban on U.S. com­mer­cial and car­go flights to Haiti.

That re­stric­tion, first im­posed in No­vem­ber 2024, is cur­rent­ly in place un­til March 12. How­ev­er, with wors­en­ing gang vi­o­lence in Port-au-Prince, it re­mains un­clear if the FAA will al­low flights to re­sume.

The FAA ban was put in place af­ter gangs opened fire on three U.S. planes, in­jur­ing a Spir­it Air­lines flight at­ten­dant and forc­ing air­lines to halt all ser­vice to Haiti.

Since then, Amer­i­can Air­lines and Spir­it Air­lines have al­so in­def­i­nite­ly sus­pend­ed flights, leav­ing Sun­rise Air­ways as the on­ly car­ri­er con­nect­ing Haiti with South Flori­da via Cap-Haï­tien.

Mean­while, as Port-au-Prince re­mains cut off, the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment has fo­cused on ex­pand­ing re­gion­al air­ports to main­tain in­ter­na­tion­al trav­el ac­cess.

On Thurs­day , of­fi­cials an­nounced that the An­toine Si­mon Air­port in Les Cayes is now equipped to re­ceive in­ter­na­tion­al flights af­ter its run­way was ex­tend­ed to 5,905 feet.

In Jan­u­ary, a sim­i­lar ex­pan­sion was com­plet­ed at Jacmel’s air­port ahead of Colom­bian Pres­i­dent Gus­ta­vo Petro’s vis­it.

How­ev­er, Port-au-Prince’s main air­port re­mains closed to com­mer­cial air­lines, de­spite con­tin­u­ing to re­ceive mil­i­tary and diplo­mat­ic flights as part of the planned Kenya-led multi­na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty de­ploy­ment.