Regular flights between Cuba and Russiasuspended in March 2022, will restart on July 1, announced RT in Spanish.
According to the outlet, the Vice President of the Russian Government, Dimitri Chernishenko, announced the reestablishment of operations during the development in Havana of the XX Intergovernmental Commission between the two countries, which concluded this Friday.
The decision, which responds to a presidential order, was made known directly to the Aeroflot company.
The airline’s executive director, Sergei Alexandrovsky, specified that the regular flights that will cover this route will be operated by Rossiya Airlines, a subsidiary of Aeroflot, and that ticket sales will open within a week.
Addressing the press, Chernishenko stressed that Cuba is Russia’s key partner in Central America and the Caribbean.
Direct travel between the two nations has been suspended since March 2022 due to the sanctions imposed on Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, accompanied by the cancellation of flights.
As a consequence, trips to Havana require connections in other cities, such as Istanbul, Turkey.
According to Latin Pressthe situation began to reverse at the end of last year, when the tour operator Pegas Touristik, in association with the charter company Nordwind Airlines, resumed flights to the resorts of Varadero and Cayo Coco.
Cuba paves the way for Russian companies at the Economic-Business Forum
In the context of the XI Meeting of the Russia-Cuba Business Forum, the Russian vice president offered details about his country’s plans to increase the number of tourists to the island, with the increase this year in the frequency of flights with regular and charter companies .
Currently, Russia is one of Cuba’s top ten trading partners, and both governments define their partnership as “strategic.”
During the week ending, some 50 companies from the Eurasian nation expressed in the Cuban capital their intentions to increase their presence in the country.
