Tag: flights to Cuba

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Trump sharply reduces flights to Cuba “to impede the regime gaining access to hard currency”

  

  The United States on Friday sharply reduced flights allowed to go to Cuba in a bid to reduce revenue to the communist island. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that charter flights would only be allowed to fly to Havana, not other airports - a step already taken with commercial flights.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  US suspends all scheduled flights to Cuba except those to Havana

  

  The United States will suspend all scheduled flights to Cuba except to its capital Havana, authorities said on Friday, as US President Donald Trump pushes to dismantle the rapprochement begun by his predecessor Barack Obama.