A year ago Thursday, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced intentions to heal relations between the United States and Cuba.
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On specific topics, Cuba and US officials have engaged in talks to address environment and marine protection, counternarcotics, direct postal services and travel to the island.
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Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of Havana and Washington’s decision to set old enmities aside and work towards stabilizing the equation between the two countries.
But until this week there has been virtually no progress on business ties, a major part of Obama’s new policy on Cuba. The terminal at Jose Martí International Airport where the chartered US planes land is relatively small so there are some physical limitations to the amount of commercial flights that can be scheduled. The two countries reopened embassies in their respective capitals in July, after more than 50 years of hostilities and non-engagement.
Right now, American and Cuban travelers must fly on charter flights that are expensive and hard to book, forcing travelers to buy paper tickets in Cuba or email documents and payment information back and forth with an agent in the U.S.
These include American Airlines, which runs 22 weekly charter flights to Cuba from NY and Newark, New Jersey.
However, media reports said the aviation deal allows 30 regularly scheduled flights a day.
“Change does not happen overnight, and normalization will be a long journey”, he said.
However, U.S. law still forbids Americans to travel to the island for tourism. Tourism industry experts expect this year for 600,000 people travel to the Caribbean island from the United States.
The U.S. and Cuba have also sparred about property disputes, the status of the American military base at Guantanamo Bay and the status of fugitives.
The U.S. removed Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List in May.
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Until then, air service between the two countries will continue via the existing system of charter flights.
