JetBlue Flight to Cuba Wednesday to End Half-Century U.S. Ban
- Flight 387 from Florida scheduled to land in Santa Clara
- Despite embargo, nearly 23,000 from US visited island in June
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For the first time in more than half a century, a scheduled, commercial flight from the U.S. is due to land in Cuba Wednesday morning. Cuban officials hope it will be the first of many, helping turn the flow of U.S. tourists to the Communist island into a flood.
JetBlue flight 387 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is due to touch down in Santa Clara at 10:57 a.m., the first of dozens of daily and weekly flights that carriers from Frontier Airlines to Sun Country plan to offer between U.S. cities and 10 Cuban destinations. Passengers on today’s flight will include U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, according to Cuban officials.