Overview
- Segura and Pazsitzky posted video updates saying they cannot get home and described shifting flight statuses at the airport.
- The Transportation Department lifted the Caribbean airspace restriction at midnight Sunday, yet carriers are still working through delays and rebookings.
- Major U.S. airlines canceled hundreds of flights during the closure, and FlightAware data cited more than 1,000 cancellations on Saturday across popular Caribbean routes.
- Other high-profile travelers were affected, with reports that Leonardo DiCaprio was stuck near St. Barts and that Natalie Portman, Queen Latifah, and Mike Tyson also faced disruptions.
- The travel fallout stems from a U.S. military operation in Venezuela, after which President Trump announced Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores were in U.S. custody facing criminal charges including narco-terrorism conspiracy.