Haiti now has two airports open to international flights. These are the Cap Haitien International Airport (CAP) and the Antoine Simon International Airport (CYA), some 9 kms from the coastal city of Les Cayes in the southwest.
The Antoine Simon Airport in the coastal city of Les Cayes, named after a Haitian president who led a rebellion in the early 1900s, operated for almost two decades before renovations began in 2013 to extend its runway.
The Antoine Simon Airport will now be Haiti’s third international airport, a development that is expected to serve the Haitian expat population and Haitians in general, boost the local economy and provide a new way for some nonprofits to distribute aid.
Cap Haitien International Airport (CAP) is served by Haitian airline Sunrise Airways, the Turks & Caicos lines Caicos Express Airways and InterCaribbean Airways and Bahamasair.
JetBlue has plans to restart flights to Port au Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP) as of 12 June 2025 from US destinations. The airport has been closed due to gang violence.
The opening of the new airport comes at a time when the United States government has removed temporary residence status for around half a million Haitians living in the United States as of 3 August 2025.
Former Dominican ambassador in Washington, D.C., Bernardo Vega writes in Noticias SIN that the US may well deport thousands of the 520,000 Haitians with TPS status back to Haiti, and thousands of these could then cross over to the Dominican Republic.
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6 March 2025