The call has caused the sneer of Cuban Internet users, who pointed out the current weaknesses of the state airline.
Lima, Peru – The Cuban Aviation State Airline, which at the beginning of 2025 only had two operational aircraft on the island, made a call to a commercial pilot formation course, with the degree of medium technician.
The announcement, shared by the entity On your Facebook profilehas caused the sneer of Cuban Internet users, who pointed out the current weaknesses of the airline and its publication.
The start of the course is planned for next September and during training time, which will run for about 20 months, students will receive a stipend of 4,800 Cuban pesos.
The classes will be taught at the Aviation Training Center, and to access the interested parties, they must be graduates of the upper middle level, as well as be 18 and 33 years old, to know English, in addition to approving a psychometric exam and a medical check -up.
“This publication has made the day. So pilots, what are they going to fly? A kite?” The user questioned as Gustavo Antonio Vázquez Aguilera.
“Did they open a place for the two pilots of the only aircraft that the company has?” Inquired the Internet Daniel Milian Rizo.
“What a wonder! What are going to fly, Harry Potter Nimbus 2000’s broom?” “It will be to pilot fumigation plane.” “In this course, do you put the plane or have to take it?” Said other users.
The Cuban Aviation State Airline crisis was exposed last January during an interview With Joel Archer Santos, president of the Cuba Aviation Corporation (CACSA).
The manager commented that at the beginning of 2025 the regime’s airline has only two operational aircraft on the island and works on the recovery of an unpeemed number of other aircraft.
In the conversation, shared by the Minister of Transportation on the island, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, the leader of Cacsa blamed the US embargo on the lack of solutions in the sector.
As usual in the official speech of Castroism, the official said that Washington’s measures prevent the Cuban government from accessing new aircraft or parts that are needed when a plane suffers a breakdown.
With the justification of the embargo, Archer Santos said that there were paralyzed remodeling in the country. “Thus aviation does not work,” he lamented. You have to wait for the production of the pieces abroad, and then import it to Cuba.
Cuban of aviation, transcended in the interview, only has two operational airplanes and currently the routes only include the provinces of Camagüe, Holguin and Santiago de Cuba, others with connections through international flights.
Last March 2024 the airline announced that before finishing the 2024 it was going to recover three aircraft of its fleet (two long -range and one medium), a promise that arrived 2025 has not been fulfilled.
