U.S. Airlines Planning More Cuba Flights As Restrictions Drop
Photo Credit: An Aeroflot plane at Havana's José Martí International Airport. Wikimedia Commons / DomodedovoSpotters
Skift Take
Cuba was once the darling of the Caribbean for U.S. tourists and businesses alike. Popular flights to Cuba contributed to the growth of our favorite legacy airlines. This new progressive strategy by the U.S., while nascent, holds great promise for the aviation market and beyond.
Now that U.S. airlines are free to add scheduled services to Cuba, we look at which are ready to jump into this new market.
While new policies introduced today still don't allow for trips to Cuba as a tourism destination, the opportunities for U.S. airlines in today’s announcement are clear: both travel agents and airlines can now provide authorized travel and air carrier services, without the need for a specific license.
An opening up of scheduled services gives airlines like American Airlines, Delta, and JetBlue, which already operate chartered flights to the island nation an opportunity to convert those charters to scheduled services, but they won’t be without competition.
Delta Airlines tells
