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Scheduled passenger flights to Cuba resume - now with jets

Published Thu, Sep 1, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida

AMID live Cuban music, fresh guava pastries and a water cannon salute, the first scheduled passenger jet service in history between Cuba and the United States kicked off on Wednesday with a 9.45am flight from here to Santa Clara, about three hours east of Havana.

The flight on JetBlue - the first regularly scheduled flight from the US to Cuba in more than 50 years - was another important step towards normalised relations between two former Cold War foes, which promises to sharply reduce airfares and ease travel between the nations.

It has been so long since an…

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