The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) has published an open letter to the Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Communications (MTPTC), Raphaël Hosty, regarding air traffic in Haiti. In this correspondence, reviewed by Le Nouvelliste, the human rights organization denounced the stranglehold of the airline Sunrise on the market, in collusion with the Haitian regulator, while providing mediocre service to customers. The RNDDH also denounced the fact that this company’s debts to the Haitian state have, in some cases, been reduced and, in others, erased by the National Airport Authority (AAN), to the detriment of the public interest.

Regarding the monopoly, the RNDDH points out that since 2024, Sunrise Airways has held a monopoly on commercial flights in Haiti. “What at first seemed to be merely the consequence of the worsening security situation in the country is, in fact, the result of the clear intent of state authorities to grant the monopoly of the market in question to said company. Indeed, in addition to the numerous difficulties raised by other airlines which, without any valid reason, are denied all access to the Haitian air market, the RNDDH cites as evidence an interview granted on July 15, 2025, by the founder and president of Sunrise Airways, Pierre-Louis Philippe BAYARD, to the online outlet Ayibopost, in which he clearly expressed his strong opposition to opening the Haitian market to a competing airline,” reads the letter, lamenting the absence of any reaction from the minister to this statement by the Sunrise CEO.