HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 29 (acn) Jet Blue airlines announced on Thursday that it will start flying to Cuba as of August 31 from Florida´s Fort Lauderdale to central Santa Clara city, thus becoming the first US commercial airline company to open direct flights to the island in more than 50 years.
The announcement explains that a one-way ticket will cost 99 dollars while the flights to Santa Clara are scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday until October 1, which is the date for the start of daily flights to that city, while similar service will be offered to eastern Camaguey city November 3 and to Holguin, November 10.
Jet Blue will be followed by Silver Airways with flights to Santa Clara starting September 1 and 6 days later American Airlines will begin flying to eastern Camaguey.
A round-trip ticket will cost 210 dollars including taxes and health insurance, which is the lowest tariff announced so far by a commercial airline company flying to Cuba, if compared to current prices of charter flights which ran between 400 and 460 dollars.
On July 7, the US administration authorized eight commercial airline companies to fly to Cuba which included Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines and United Airlines.
Flights to Havana will depart airports in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Newark, New Jersey; New York, and Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, in Florida.
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