Regular flights between the U.S. and Cuba could “commence sometime later this year,” the U.S. Government announced today in a press release.<\/p>\n
Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H. Rivkin will travel to Havana on February 16 to sign a bilateral arrangement to re-establish scheduled air services between the United States and Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n
The signing brings into effect the arrangement that was reached December 16, 2015.<\/p>\n
This arrangement will continue to allow charter flight operations.<\/p>\n
In 2015, more than 140,000 people from the United States visited Cuba – 50,000 more than in 2014.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of them are Cuban-Americans, but the number of Americans has also increased, in spite of the embargo regulations that do not allow Americans to travel to Cuba as tourists.<\/p>\n
“While U.S. law prohibits travel to Cuba for tourist activities, this arrangement will facilitate authorized travel, enhance traveler choices, and strengthen people-to-people links between the two countries,” read the release.<\/p>\n
The expansion of authorized travel is part of the new approach to relation with the island, one that emphasizes engagement with the Cuban people.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Regular flights between the U.S. and Cuba could “commence sometime later this year,” the U.S. Government announced today in a press release. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H. Rivkin will travel to Havana on February 16 to sign a bilateral arrangement to re-establish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":63279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13930],"tags":[12586,12588],"ppma_author":[33546,8689],"class_list":["post-63264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologies-of-communication-and-media","tag-direct-flights","tag-u-s-cuba-flights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n