GPS dis­rup­tions have been af­fect­ing flights in and around Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, ac­cord­ing to re­port­ing by The New York Times over the week­end. Pi­lots from Caribbean Air­lines and Co­pa Air­lines have told air traf­fic con­trollers that their nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems were be­ing jammed, prompt­ing guid­ance from radar to en­sure safe land­ings. The in­ter­fer­ence is linked to an es­ca­lat­ing stand­off be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, with both coun­tries’ mil­i­taries re­port­ed­ly jam­ming satel­lite nav­i­ga­tion sig­nals in the Caribbean. “These dis­rup­tions are de­fen­sive in na­ture,” Lo­gan Scott, a ra­dio fre­quen­cy ex­pert, told The New York Times. Co­pa Air­lines said it is “tak­ing all nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions and is in close and fre­quent con­tact with all rel­e­vant avi­a­tion au­thor­i­ties,” while Caribbean Air­lines con­firmed pi­lots had ex­pe­ri­enced jam­ming but of­fered no fur­ther de­tails.

Source: International New York Times December 22, 2025 21:12 UTC