US-Cuba flights to resume after more than 50 years

[Atlantis]

Source : BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35590757

The US and Cuba have signed an agreement to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in more than 50 years.
Some charter flights currently fly between the countries but the new agreement could see as many as 110 flights a day - more than five times the current number.
The flights could begin in autumn this year.
This is the latest stage in a thawing of the countries' relationship.
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the commercial flights marked a "critically important milestone in the US effort to engage with Cuba".
Cuban Minister of Transport Adel Rodriguez called it a "new era".
The US imposed a trade embargo on the communist-run island in 1960.
In late 2014, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced that they would begin normalising their relationship.
They met for the first time in April 2015 in Panama, and shook hands and held a private meeting at the UN General Assembly in September.

[Porpoise101]

Cool. Hopefully I will be able to go there before it gets eaten by American development. They say it is the most natural of the Caribbean islands.

[Judean Zealot]

Rafael or Rubio might shit all over this.

[Thunderstorm]

This is great. Cuba is just ninety miles from Key West. It's important to have good relations and it could really benefit their country and ours.

[eric2001]

I want to go there for sure. Nice and warm weather and the people seem friendly after all those years.

[Falcons_11]

As of right now U.S. citizens are prohibited from traveling to Cuba for the sole purpose of vacationing and spending money there. The only legal way to travel is part of a sponsored people to people exchange or other approved reason to travel there. Nothing purchased can be brought back to the U.S., such as cigars, etc. U.S. citizens can travel to Cuba illegally by flying to Mexico, Canada or other Caribbean countries. But they might be arrested on re-entry to the U.S. for violating the travel ban. Hopefully, soon the U.S. will change it's policy and all of us can join the rest of the world getting tan on some Cuban beach.