The airspace between Haiti and the United States is not closed, according to Haitian officials

"The situation is resolved. Everything has returned to normal after a communication issue between the air navigation services of Miami and Haiti that halted a flight and led to the return of a Sunrise flight that had already left the USA," officials from OFNAC and TPTC told the Nouvelliste on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.

"Today, the FAA control center in Miami was making a change to its communication system with different Caribbean countries. At the moment of the switch, some countries lost communication with the control center. F