MIAMI, United States. – The Polish airline Lot resumed its flights to Cuba with the route between the city of Katowice and the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport, in Varadero, with a weekly frequency in the high season of tourism, according to the official magazine Excellencies.
According to Rolando Marichal Pineda, director of the Cubanacán Travel Agency in Matanzas, the Ministry of Tourism hopes that with the advance of the high season, the frequency of arrivals from Poland will increase to two per week, as was the case in periods previous.
The Polish market, according to the official, is interested in several destinations in Cuba, such as Viñales, in Pinar del Río, and El Nicho, in Cienfuegos.
At the end of October it also emerged that the airline Air Canada had resumed its flights to Cuba, which had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the Cuban Ministry of Tourism, quoted by the official media Cuban News Agency (ACN), In the case of Air Canada, the flights will have five direct weekly frequencies to Havana.
The information highlights that Canada has been one of the main source markets for tourists to Cuba for more than 10 years, and direct links are currently of special significance for tourism on the Island.
The ACN also reported that the Aeroméxico airline would resume its flights to the country with seven weekly frequencies for the Mexico City-Havana route. Aeroméxico began operations in Cuba in 2011 and in 2020 stopped them due to sanitary restrictions due to coronavirus.
In mid-October, the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa inaugurated an air connection with Cuba from the Falcón state, to consolidate the commercial and tourist exchange between both nations, according to Ramón Celestino Velásquez, Minister of Transportation of the Nicolás Maduro regime.
Last September, the Joe Biden administration agreed to expand US flights to the island from companies such as JetBlue and American Airlines.
Among other airlines that have increased their trips to Cuba after they were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are the Spanish World2Fly, owned by the Iberostar tourist group; the Mexican long live aerobus; the Colombian Wingo and the Angolan TAAG-Lineas Aereas.
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