The Venezuelan Civil Aviation Authority reported that it has received a request from the U.S. government to resume repatriation flights for Venezuelan migrants.

Consequently, the entry into Venezuelan airspace of the aircraft operated by the company EASTERN AIRLINES LLC, on the route Phoenix, Arizona-Maiquetía, with flight number EAL8280/8281, in the aircraft B777-200, registration N771KW (main), N825KW (alternate) , is authorized to land at the Maiquetía International Airport.

This has been happening on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, since the agreement signed between both parties.

"This authorization has been issued in accordance with the laws of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and international civil aviation laws," the official statement said.

"The repatriation of our nationals to reunite Venezuelan families through the Plan Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland Plan) will continue," he adds, while publishing the request from the United States, which in recent days had announced the closure of Venezuelan airspace, according to its president Donald Trump, so this reconsideration has been considered by some people as contradictory .

However, about 33 weekly flights to Venezuela have been suspended by about ten airlines after the United States issued a travel risk alert for the country, amid Trump's fight against drug cartels .