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20 Lug 2016

All Cargo Airline Gets Permit for US Cuba Freight Flights

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Things Loosening Up as Relationship Develops.

 

US – CUBA – American parcel giant FedEx, has become the first all-cargo airline approved by the US Department of Transportation to provide regular scheduled flights to Cuba as relations between the two countries continue to ease. Starting January 15, 2017, FedEx will begin once-daily Monday through Friday air freight service between Miami, Florida and Matanzas, Cuba, to complement the previously announced passenger/combinations flights.

 

On February 16, 2016, Transport Secretary Anthony Foxx signed an arrangement with the Cuban government to re-establish scheduled air service between the two countries after more than 50 years. Under the new arrangement, each country has the opportunity to operate up to 20 daily roundtrip flights between the US and Havana, and up to 10 daily roundtrip flights between the US and each of Cuba’s other nine international airports.

 

FedEx has so far been the only all-cargo carrier to seek scheduled authority to Cuba. The DOT’s concession of non-Havana authority to FedEx is in addition to DOT’s previous approval of six US airlines to begin scheduled combination services to Cuban cities outside Havana. All of these non-Havana applications were uncontested and the DOT’s proceeding on the award of Havana authority is ongoing.

 

The approved domestic airlines will begin the scheduled passenger/combination flights between Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis/St. Paul, in the US and Camagüey, Cayo Coco, Cayo Largo, Cienfuegos, Holguín, Manzanillo, Matanzas, Santa Clara, and Santiago de Cuba, in Cuba as early as this fall. American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines, and Sun Country Airlines have been named to serve the routes. Read more

 

 

Source: HANDY SHIPPING GUIDE

 

 

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