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Charter business thrives as US-expelled Haitians flee Haiti

Jean Robert Jean Baptiste looks at the camera in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Jean Baptiste said he took a charter flight to Brazil after he was deported from the U.S. and has since made his way to Tijuana. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) An agent at NewStilo travel agency assists customers in Santiago, Chile, Friday, March 25, 2022. John Paul Spode, who manages NewStilo, said few places have the demand for charter flights like Haiti, though he said it’s not an easy place for a business to operate. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) John Paul Spode, who has worked 35 years in the travel industry and manages NewStilo, a travel agency, poses for a portrait at his office in Santiago, Chile, Friday, March 25, 2022. Spode said few places have the demand for charter flights like Haiti, though he said it’s not an easy place for a business to operate. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) The office of the Alta Tour Turismo Travel Agency is open for business inside a small shopping center in downtown Santiago, Chile, Thursday, June 9, 2022. The agency rents planes for charter flights between Haiti and Chile. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) Haitian migrants wait in line to check-in for a flight to Chile, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Thousands of Haitians in recent months have boarded charter flights to South America, according to flight tracking information and independent verification by The Associated Press in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) Haitian migrants wait in line to check-in for a flight to Chile, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Thousands of Haitians in recent months have boarded charter flights to South America, according to flight tracking information and independent verification by The Associated Press in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) Etienne Ilienses checks her family's papers for a flight to Chile, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Ilienses said she was sent back to Haiti from Texas on Dec. 14 and talked to the AP before flying to Santiago with her three children on a Jan. 30 charter flight on SKY. “To get to the USA, I braved hell,” she said. Still, she did not dismiss doing it again “because Haiti offers nothing to its children. We are forced to suffer humiliations, affronts everywhere." (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)