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United States, Cuba to resume scheduled commercial airline service
The United States and Cuba have agreed to restore scheduled commercial airline service between the two countries for the first time in more than five decades, exactly a year after they started the process of normalizing relations. The latest step to restore U.S.-Cuba ties after 54 years of hostility will not go into effect immediately but should eventually increase tourism and business on the communist-ruled island. (www.reuters.com) Más...
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Awesome! Hopefully we will see some Air Cubana Antonovs and Iluyshins touching down at JFK. Too bad they aren't flying IL-62s anymore.
Apparently safety standards still apply to aircraft flying from Cuba to the US, so we probably won't be seeing those old russian planes.
Actually you could..the IL 96-300, TU-204 and AN-24D are all FAA certified to fly into the US...Air Cubana also has A320's they could use...the AN -24 would probably be just a Havana/Varedaro to Miami/area airports puddle jumper
Hi, Even though Cuba's counter claims against the US have no ground or foot to stand on (except maybe for the proxy invasion); this dispute is exactly why I do not think this airline agreement will go forward or fall through.
On the part of the US, it is just a matter of money; you owe, you payback with interest; meaning the electrical company, the phone company, the railroads, cement factories, sugar mills, etcetera that were expropriated without due compensation at the time; in the US money is sacred, it represents work, and it is thicker than blood.
On the part of the US, it is just a matter of money; you owe, you payback with interest; meaning the electrical company, the phone company, the railroads, cement factories, sugar mills, etcetera that were expropriated without due compensation at the time; in the US money is sacred, it represents work, and it is thicker than blood.
I agree that these companies should have been reimbursed for expropriated facilities even though they were obtained often by illegal or immoral means. However, the actions of the US government attempting to starve and coerce the Cubans into surrendering their own country to a dictator and gangsters made repayment impossible even if they wanted to pay. Despite Cuba emulating the 1776 rebellion of the American colonies, the US has spent more than half a century trying to stamp out the government produced by the Cuban revolution and still supported by the majority of its people and most other nations. At the same time, US governments having been making trade deals with every other communist and dictator led country in the world: Russia, China, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Asian "Stans", Vietnam, ...
Hi, Jeraboam:
You are welcome; we will see how everything turns out at the end, either way.
I hear that Cubana de Aviacion has in service the Antonov 158 regional jet for domestic and short to medium international flights to the Caribbean area.
Right now the only US airline that has a waiver from the US Department of State and the US Commerce Department to fly freight directly to Cuba (Jose Marti International Airport at Rancho Boyeros)is called IBC (International Bonded Couriers). They use Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner and Saab 340 turboprops.
You are welcome; we will see how everything turns out at the end, either way.
I hear that Cubana de Aviacion has in service the Antonov 158 regional jet for domestic and short to medium international flights to the Caribbean area.
Right now the only US airline that has a waiver from the US Department of State and the US Commerce Department to fly freight directly to Cuba (Jose Marti International Airport at Rancho Boyeros)is called IBC (International Bonded Couriers). They use Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner and Saab 340 turboprops.
