At the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport in the famous resort of Varadero, plans to increase its operations in November, when the high season for tourism in Cuba begins.
The general coordinator of the terminal, María Elena Oviedo, told the Cuban News Agency that the increase in tourism will be marked by the launch of American Airlines flights to this terminal, especially from November 15.
“The North American airline will resume operations to the main sun and beach tourist destination in Cuba, joining the 40 weekly flights scheduled by Canadian Sunwing Airlines and other flights from Germany, Portugal, England, Russia, Mexico and the Netherlands , Brussels and the Dominican Republic,” he explained.
Oviedo said new staff are being trained to deal with the so-called winter tourism season, which coincides with the island’s peak demand. By then, “new international transport operators and airport services, in reduced mobility and in other specialties, graduates of courses that are now being taught and will be restored to better quality for customers,” reported the official Cuban media.
48 weekly flights land in Varadero from different regions of the world, which would increase with the arrival of the US airline.
On October 5, the Cuban regime confirmed that the foreign airlines increased their flights to Cuba Since international travel to the country reopened in late 2021, nearly 400 weekly air operations are currently operating on the island.
Jesús Ramón Hernández, operations director of the Cuban Company of Airports and Airport Services (ECASA), confirmed that an additional 45 foreign airlines operate scheduled and charter flights to Cuba.
It also emerged last Tuesday that Russia and Cuba have resumed direct flights to the tourist resorts of Varadero and Cayo Coco.
As of this week, Nordwind Airlines operates four weekly flights to Varadero with Russian tourists from Moscow and maintains another three weekly flights to Cayo Coco.
The Cuban regime expects to close the year with the arrival of 2.5 million foreign visitors but the goal is difficult to achieve considering those accumulated up to the end of August, when only 971,456 tourists had arrived, a figure that represents only 12.27% of the visitors who visited the country on the same day in 2019, the last year with better data before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The American company American Airlines, which now operates 55 weekly flights to Havana, will start in November operate in five other Cuban cities: Santiago de Cuba, Camaguey, Santa Clara, and Holguin Varaderofollowing a permit received in July this year.
“For the coming winter season American Airlines will have 97 weekly flights and more than 120,000 monthly seats between the United States and Cuba and will be the largest air transport operator in this market,” emphasized the specialized portal aviacionline.