The United States and Cuba have agreed to restore regular commercial flights, in a deal that could jumpstart economic relations between the two countries, BBC News reports.
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The United States and Cuba have struck a deal to allow as many as 110 regular airline flights a day, allowing a surge of American travel to Cuba that one local expert says could help New Orleans emerge as one potential location for US airlines resuming commercial air service. Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag was hoisted Monday at the country’s embassy in Washington in a symbolic move signaling the start of a new post-Cold War era in U.S.-Cuba relations. “We will review the terms of the agreement to understand how JetBlue can expand from charter service to regularly scheduled service”, said JetBlue’s senior vice president airline planning, Scott Laurence. Travelers in 12 authorized categories-including business, cultural exchange, journalism, professional research, athletic contests and academic, humanitarian or religious work-may travel from the U.S.to Cuba so long as they self-certify that their travel meets one of the preapproved categories. USA Today noted that the schedule will include 20 flights a day between the United States and Havana, and 10 a day between the U.S. and nine other global airports spread across the island. But he said the carrier, already the largest charter operator to Cuba among major airlines, plans to fly commercially out of Miami and other unspecified American hubs.
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The deal was achieved in Washington, after three days of negotiations between the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for transportation affairs, Thomas Engle, on the US side and Ambassador Yuri Gala Lopez from Cuba.
While U.S. officials still oppose Cuba’s lack of political rights, Obama concluded these goals could be better served through engagement.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines said it’s “excited about the possibility of providing low-fare, high-quality service to Cuba”, but it’s time frame is probably farther out. “Change does not happen overnight, and normalization will be a long journey”.
“Over the next year, we will continue on this path, empowering Cubans and Americans to lead the way”, he said.
Obama’s administration embarked on rapprochement after concluding that decades of USA isolation of Cuba had failed.
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“When the United States shuttered our embassy in 1961, I don’t think anyone thought it would be more than half a century before it reopened”, President Barack Obama had said.
