The pact – the most significant business development since the presidents’ announcement one year ago – allows US airlines to negotiate with the Cuban government over commercial flight routes and schedules.
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Although the ban on tourist travel remains in force, the new accord will “facilitate an increase in authorized travel, enhance traveler choices, and promote people-to-people links between the two countries”.
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On December 17, 2014, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced the launching of a process to normalise bilateral relations that led, last July, to the reopening of embassies in Havana and Washington after more than half a century.
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U.S.travel from Cuba is up more than 50 percent from previous year even though flying today requires wrangling with charter airlines that are expensive and hard to book.
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 Airlines said in a release that it will submit a US-Cuba service proposal to the US Transportation Department and wants to introduce flights as soon as possible in 2016.
“The agreement will allow 110 regularly scheduled flights per day, including 20 to Havana and 10 to each of Cuba’s nine other worldwide airports”.
US travelers still must meet at least one of 12 criteria to visit, such as being Cuban-American or partaking in educational tours or journalistic activity. These flights are operated by carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue, Delta, Eastern Air Lines, and Atlantic World, to name a few.
The diplomatic advance is said to be the biggest step toward tighter economic ties since the two countries began normalizing relations previous year. He also said Obama could exert more of his executive authority on Cuba.
In addition, thanks to the change in US policy toward Cuba, Washington is “in a stronger position” to engage “the people and governments of our hemisphere”, Obama said. The official could not say when flights would actually resume, because there are other steps the Federal Aviation Administration needs to take to ensure certain safety regulations are in place.
Cuba’s embassy in Washington said in a statement on the airline deal that the countries reiterated their commitment to flight security and to protecting civil aviation “from acts of unlawful interference”.
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It has been an extraordinary year in Cuba-US relations. But he said they had “not made any progress” on issues Cuba considers necessary for normal relations, such as ending the United States trade embargo of Cuba and USA withdrawal from the naval base at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay.
