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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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.