American Airlines Stops Flying to Venezuela

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American Airlines Group Inc. suspended its service to Venezuela on security concerns, shutting down the only flights to the country by a major U.S. carrier.

The move followed a notice from the carrier’s pilots union, backed up by flight attendants, telling its members to refuse the routes because of dangerous conditions in the nation.

A union for American’s pilots told its members to decline flights to Venezuela because of dangerous conditions there, potentially shutting down the last air service to the country by a major U.S. carrier.

The action followed a U.S. State Department warning about hazards of traveling to the strife-torn nation. Since 2013, almost a dozen airlines have pulled out of the South American nation as Venezuela’s government has struggled during a spiraling economic crisis.

American had been flying twice daily between Caracas and Miami and once a day between Maracaibo and Miami. The State Department said Thursday that all U.S. diplomats had left Venezuela.

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants re-broadcast the pilots’ text notification to its own members, adding that it “supports the APA’s decision 100 percent in that the safety of our crews must be our top priority.”

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