Haiti halts outbound flights to Nicaragua -media

Haiti's government has suspended all Nicaragua-bound flights leaving its capital, the Miami Herald reported on Monday, putting at least a temporary end to a key route for would-be Haitian migrants seeking to reach the U.S. The Miami Herald cited a bulletin sent to the aviation community that was then shared with the newspaper as the source of the information. The government of Haiti - the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - has made no public announcement about the flights and did not respond to a Reuters request for comment about the flight suspensions. According to publicly available data on flight tracking website FlightRadar24, no flights appeared on Monday on the Port-au-Prince to Managua route, compared to 12 flights between the two capitals on Sunday. The Port-au-Prince to Managua flights began in August and have mostly been operated by charter carriers. In recent weeks, as many as 15 flights per day have ferried thousands of Haitians to Nicaragua, which does not require Haitians to present a visa to enter the Central American country.<br/>