To further the Administration’s policy of strengthening the economic
consequences to the Cuban regime for its ongoing repression of the Cuban people
and its support for Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, in the foreign policy interests of
the United States, I respectfully request that the Department of Transportation
suspend until further notice all scheduled U.S. carrier flights between the United
States and all airports in Cuba, except José Martí International Airport (HAV) in
Havana.
Not to get political, but this is rather unfortunate for the (two?) U.S. carriers.
Current Non-Havana to U.S. Flights: (might’ve missed a few)
American Airlines:
From Miami:
Santiago De Cuba (SCU)
Holguin (HOG)
Camaguey (CMW)
Santa Clara (SNU)
Varadero (VRA)
JetBlue:
From Fort Lauderdale:
Holguin (HOG)
Camaguey (CMW)
Santa Clara (SNU)
Honestly was expecting more carriers at secondary Cuban destinations, but I guess the others have consolidated themselves at Havana.
Traveling to Cuba seems like it will continue to become difficult as travel restrictions were placed on Cuba travel earlier this year.
Have any of you been to Cuba and/or planning to fly to Cuba?
Did Cuba do anything in response
Also, do the airlines have yet to know because I looked up the routes and those routes are still scheduled (not cancelled) with the airlines
Cuba is on my bucket list, when POTUS Obama started working on relations with Cuba Alaska was beginning service to go, me and my friend booked a trip with Alaska to fly there then POTUS Trump suspended that deal. We’re looking at going via Air Canada to visit in the future
It was just announced about an hour or so ago, so airlines will need a bit of time to remove the flights from their schedules. Highly likely to see them remove it in the OAG updates this Sunday.
December 10th is when the airlines must stop flying the routes. The airlines will need to remove the bookings as soon as possible to avoid confusion and having to re-book passengers elsewhere.