It will still take several months to get logistics in place before the airlines can begin their flights. “Today, more Americans are visiting Cuba and engaging the Cuban people than at any time in the last 50 years”, Obama said in a statement.
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Trips to Cuba from the USA have skyrocketed in the last 12 months after the announcement of the thaw.
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However, under current regulations, those trips must be booked on charter flights and are hard for travelers to arrange online.
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“We are really pleased about the opportunity to engage in scheduled service sometime in 2016 between the United States and Cuba”, said Howard Kass, the airline’s vice president of regulatory affairs.
Charter flights operated by US carriers already connect the countries. At the same time, the improved public Wi-Fi availability in Cuba and eased travel restrictions for Cuban-Americans mean that contact between the island and Cuban communities in the United States now is much like that for other immigrant communities from around the hemisphere.
Under the new Cuba policy, we have moved away from a flawed strategy of trying to bring about positive change through chaos and collapse in Cuba toward a smarter strategy of empowering the Cuban people to determine their own destiny. “It’s the best way for us because we have parents there and here and this is very good for relations”. Over the next year, we will continue on this path, empowering Cubans and Americans to lead the way.
Aircraft landing in the United States must meet US safety standards, so aging Russian planes in the Cuban fleet will likely only fly domestically within Cuba.
Washington for its part is seeking damages for property that Cuba seized from U.S. companies and citizens in the early 1960s, and also wants to see democratic and free-market reforms on the island. “There is no beef, nothing has happened.’ We were promised new businesses would spring up, that there was going to be human rights improvements”, said Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason.
Though the US and Cuba have re-established diplomatic relations, the two countries have far from worked everything out. Two cellphone carriers have signed roaming agreements, and MasterCard and Florida-based Stonegate Bank partnered to release debit cards for use in Cuba. That is a key issue for the United States in advancing relations but Havana says it is a matter of national sovereignty.
That’s one of the first concrete details to emerge from the new U.S.-Cuba agreement that will allow airlines to add regular passenger service between the nations.
American said it will operate about 1,200 charter flights to Cuba this year, which is up 9 percent from those in 2014.
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The Associated Press reports that American and Cuban officials said Wednesday that they had come to an understanding on key points and hoped to make a formal deal shortly. “I think you’ll see a lot more Republicans shifting their position”.
