MIAMI, United States. – The Venezuelan state airline Conviasa inaugurated this Sunday 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.
“Today our flagship airline Conviasa began commercial flights between Havana and Falcón, with a weekly frequency that will allow the consolidation of integration, cultural, commercial and tourist exchange between two brother towns,” said the minister on Twitter.
For its part, Conviasa specific that the route will connect the city of Las Piedras with Havana and showed images of the takeoff of the first aircraft that completed the route between the two cities.
Velásquez also shared photos of the inaugural flight and said that “the supportive wings of Venezuela” continued “uniting the Bolivarian peoples of the great homeland. Nothing stops our flag carrier from growing,” he boasted.
According to the news agency EFEthe route was announced on August 25 by the Minister of Tourism, Ali Padrón.
At the beginning of this month it transpired that Conviasa would increase the weekly frequency of flights to Cuba to 10, including the Havana-Las Piedras route inaugurated on October 16.
With this flight “travelers will have another alternative to get to a free zone similar to those of Cancun, in Mexico, and Panama,” he told the Cuban News Agency (ACN) Vicente Naranjo, representative in Cuba of Conviasa.
In addition, Conviasa plans to connect Havana with Panama soon, according to Vicente Naranjo.
The company, founded by former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez in 2004, has been operating in Cuba for 12 years, being Managua the destination most demanded by Cubans, fundamentally since the Nicaraguan regime established the “free visa” for Cuban citizens, in November 2021.
The airline has so far a frequency of two weekly trips to the Nicaraguan capital.
Among the 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 American American Airlines, the Colombian Wingo and the Angolan TAAG-Líneas Aéreas.
The increase in these flights is well received by the island’s regime which, despite the harsh crisis the country is going through, continues to bet on raising the levels of the tourism industry.
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