MADRID, Spain.- The airline Air Canada resumed its flights to Cuba this Friday, 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), 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 ten years, and direct links are currently of special significance for tourism on the Island.
It is worth noting that the Cuban government acknowledged this October 28 that it will not meet its goal of receiving 2.5 million international visitors in 2022, as planned.
ACN He also reported that the Aeroméxico airline will resume its flights to the country starting this Sunday 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 the middle of this month, 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 World2Flyowned by the Iberostar tourist group, the Mexican long live aerobusthe Colombian Wingo and the Angolan TAAG-Líneas Aéreas.
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