12 March 2016 - Business View Caribbean
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Five US airlines submit applications
for US-Cuba service
Recently, five US airlines: Alaska Airlines, Delta Air
Lines, JetBlue Southwest Airlines, and United Air-
lines submitted applications to the U.S. Department
of Transportation for commercial air service on mul-
tiple routes between the U.S. and Cuba. Service to
Cuba is expected to resume this year, allowing des-
ignated U.S. carriers to operate a total of 20 daily
round-trip flights between the U.S. and Havana and
ten daily round-trip flights to nine other Cuban cities
with international airports.
Alaska Airlines is seeking approval to fly two daily
nonstop flights from its Latin America gateway of
Los Angeles to Havana using a Boeing 737-900ER,
which carries 181 passengers in a two-class con-
figuration. Delta Air Lines seeks approval to serve
Havana with daily flights from its hubs in Atlanta and
New York’s JFK International Airport as well as from
Miami and Orlando. Delta would operate the flights
from Atlanta and JFK with the Boeing 757-200, and
Miami and Orlando with the Boeing 737-800.
JetBlue proposes to fly 15 daily frequencies con-
necting four Cuban cities with six U.S. cities, includ-
