Overview
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the FAA’s temporary limits expired at 12:00 a.m. ET and airlines were notified to resume service.
- United, Delta and American prepared Sunday schedules, with American adding more than 3,700 seats and larger aircraft, though analysts warn full recovery will take days.
- JetBlue canceled about 215 flights during the shutdown, Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín Airport saw roughly 357 disrupted movements, and Aruba recorded 89 cancellations affecting carriers including KLM.
- EASA advised carriers to avoid Venezuelan airspace through January 9 due to a high assessed risk from potential air-defense activity.
- U.S. officials said the Caracas raid—described by Gen. Dan Caine as “Operation Resolución Absoluta”—used more than 150 aircraft and led to Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores being taken to New York, where Maduro is held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.