Here’s another milestone in the changing of U.S. and Cuba relations.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is announcing the approval of six carriers that will fly between the U.S. and Cuba. These include American, Frontier, JetBlue, Silver Airways, Southwest, and Sun Country. Altogether, there will be 155 flights that are expected to commence within 90 days.
American will serve Miami to Holguin, Matanzas and Santa Clara twice daily. Once daily trips will be made to Cienfugos and Camaguey. Frontier will travel once a day from Chicago O’Hare to Santiago de Cuba and every Saturday from the Windy City to Matanzas. From Philadelphia, the airline will go to Camaguey four times weekly, Santa Clara three times a week, and Matanzas on Saturdays.
For Lauderdale will be served by JetBlue — with daily flights to Camaguey, Holguin, and Santa Clara. Silver Airways — with its turbo-prop, 34-set planes — is going to Camaguey five times a week; Cayo Coco three times weekly; Cayo Largo Del Sur each Saturday; Cienfuegos on Mondays and Fridays; Manzaniello three times weekly; Matanzas four times per week; and Santa Clara, Holguin, and Santiago de Cuba daily.
Southwest will take passengers twice a day from Fort Lauderdale to Matanzas and once daily to Santa Clara. Sun Country Airlines will cover Minneapolis to Santa Clara on Sundays and Matanzas on Saturdays.
