{"id":31994,"date":"2026-03-18T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/sunrise-airways-haitian-passengers-trapped-by-the-double-ticket\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:03:46","slug":"sunrise-airways-haitian-passengers-trapped-by-the-double-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/sunrise-airways-haitian-passengers-trapped-by-the-double-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Airways: Haitian Passengers Trapped by the \u201cDouble Ticket\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some situations, on their own, expose the <strong>deep flaws of a system<\/strong>. The case of <strong>Sunrise Airways<\/strong> is a striking example.<\/p>\n<p>How can an airline that benefits from an <strong>$11 million government guarantee<\/strong> effectively impose <strong>double billing<\/strong> on passengers already hard hit by the economic crisis?<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, <strong>security imperatives<\/strong> cannot simply be brushed aside. Reports of <strong>gunfire targeting an aircraft<\/strong> are serious and deserve full attention. But the continued absence of investigation findings fuels <strong>legitimate doubts about the transparency<\/strong> of this decision.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it is <strong>passengers<\/strong> who pay the heavy price.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism borders on cynicism: <strong>diverting international flights to Cap-Ha\u00eftien<\/strong>, then forcing passengers to <strong>buy a second ticket<\/strong> to reach <strong>Port-au-Prince<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Without regulation, the practice amounts to a genuine <strong>captive-market windfall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Even more troubling is the <strong>silence of the state<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As guarantor of how <strong>public funds<\/strong> are used and protector of <strong>citizens<\/strong>, it seems reduced here to a mere spectator. This inertia raises questions about its ability to <strong>regulate a sector as strategic as air transport<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond <strong>Sunrise Airways<\/strong>, the whole question of <strong>governance<\/strong> is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Can public <strong>resources<\/strong> continue to be committed without requiring, in return, strict <strong>service obligations<\/strong>, <strong>transparency<\/strong> and <strong>accountability<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some situations, on their own, expose the deep flaws of a system. The case of Sunrise Airways is a striking example. How can an airline that benefits from an $11 million government guarantee effectively impose double billing on passengers already hard hit by the economic crisis? Admittedly, security imperatives cannot simply be brushed aside. Reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":28514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}