MIAMI, United States. – The Iberojet airline, belonging to Ávoris Corporación Empresarial, inaugurated its direct Madrid-Santiago de Cuba flight last Friday, according to reported media specialized in tourism.
With this, Iberojet became the only airline in Spain to offer a non-stop round-trip connection to Santiago de Cuba.
“The inauguration of this completely full Madrid-Santiago de Cuba direct flight demonstrates the importance of the Caribbean island for the Spanish market when choosing a vacation destination. With this operation, in addition to offering travelers an alternative to the destination of Havana, we want to demonstrate our firm commitment to diversify destinations, so that our end customer has different and varied options when choosing a vacation destination,” he said. to the press Paul Verhagen, deputy general director of Iberojet.
On the other hand, the airline offers the possibility of combining the airports of Santiago de Cuba and Havana to enter and leave the country.
According to the medium expressthe new route is part of the airline’s current programming that aims to diversify destinations for the Spanish market and offer new flights.
The outlet also indicated that the strengthening of connectivity with Santiago de Cuba had been possible thanks to the collaboration between the Cuban Government, the private sector and all the actors that are part of the value chain of the tourist destination.
In this sense, the authorities of the Cuban regime celebrated the inauguration of the Madrid-Santiago de Cuba route.
The arrival of this first flight operated by Iberojet to the city of Santiago de Cuba is cause for celebration for the entire country, since with this new operation we have the great opportunity to show the Spanish traveler another of our heritage cities, which is located about 800 kilometers from Havana but which offers a great diversity of tourist and leisure options,” said María del Carmen Orellana, first deputy minister of Tourism for the island.
This month too transcended that The Polish airline Lot would resume 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.
At the end of October it was learned that the airline Air Canada had resumed its flights to Cuba, which had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Likewise, Aeroméxico resumed its flights to the island with seven weekly frequencies for the Mexico City-Havana route. Aeroméxico began operations in Cuba since 2011 and in 2020 stopped them due to sanitary restrictions due to coronavirus.
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