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Thir­ty min­utes in­to its jour­ney, Jet­Blue Flight 2017, bound for Port of Spain, was forced to turn around and re­turn to New York’s John F. Kennedy Air­port af­ter the U.S. Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FAA) tem­porar­i­ly banned U.S. car­ri­ers from fly­ing in cer­tain parts of the re­gion.

A Jet­Blue spokesper­son told Guardian Me­dia that over 215 flights across the re­gion have been can­celled due to mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty, in­clud­ing the air­line’s evening ser­vice to Trinidad. Flights to the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Ja­maica re­main un­af­fect­ed. Cus­tomers with can­celled flights can ei­ther re­book or re­quest a re­fund. The air­line has al­so is­sued a fee waiv­er for pas­sen­gers with up­com­ing trav­el.

Amer­i­can Air­lines and Unit­ed Air­lines al­so told Guardian Me­dia they are mak­ing sched­ule ad­just­ments due to the air­space re­stric­tions. In a state­ment, Amer­i­can Air­lines said it is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion with the “safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of our cus­tomers and team mem­bers” in mind. The air­line will is­sue a trav­el alert al­low­ing pas­sen­gers to change plans at no cost.