The Cuban state aviation company began selling tickets online, through a page where users can purchase their tickets from anywhere, whether inside or outside the island.
The new sales modality includes the possibility of making payments both in cash and through transfers, reported the official portal.Cubadebate.
Cubana had announced that it was renewing its website, and ensures that "a ticket can be purchased with just one click" totravel within the island and abroad.
Users can purchase tickets for a variety of domestic destinations, including popular routes such as Havana-Santiago de Cuba, among others.
In previous days, the airline had announced through its Facebook page the availability of spaces for the sale of tickets from November 19 to March 27, 2024.
Tickets can be purchased in cash or through other means such as Enzona or Transfermóvil.
The company Sunrise Airways shared the news that its tickets on the Cuba-Haiti route will be available in the Cubana de Aviación sales network, offering more connectivity options.
The Minister of Transportation, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, after blaming the United States embargo for the widespread precariousness in Cuba, said last month that domestic flights will be gradually restored, because the country has established agreements with international companies, and received a TU plane -204 of modernized Russian manufacture that reintegrated into its fleet and is now operating.
An IL-96 and several ATR aircraft also arrived on the island, which in his opinion are "those that can help the most, internally."
Although at that time domestic flights to Santiago de Cuba and Holguín had been restored, those to Camagüey and Nueva Gerona were still suspended because the plane was damaged, he explained.
Rodríguez Dávila pointed out that online sales would begin in November but that the application for these sales was not working well due to poor management of the site, he explained.
Last March the airlineCuban Aviation reported that before the end of this year it would have recovered three aircraft from its fleet, two long-range and one medium-range.
In September, a Cubana de Aviación aircraft arrived on the islandhad been out of service for seven years and of them four in Russia, undergoing extensive maintenance-
"Our TU-204, CU-T 1702, now in the Homeland! Congratulations!" wrote the Cuban Aviation Importing Company, AVIAIMPORT, on Facebook.
In 2019 the Russian government agreed to restore the airworthiness of theRussian aircraft fleet and Ukrainians from Cubana de Aviación and opened a local maintenance and repair center to support the airline.
The Kremlin and Havana signed a contract after the visit to the island of Yuri Borisov, the then deputy prime minister responsible for Russia's military-industrial complex. Both governments reached an agreement that allowed heavy maintenance (called Check-D and Check-C) to be carried out on Russian-made aircraft in their country of origin.
Before closing the contract, Russian specialists evaluated the condition of five Ilyushin Il-96-300, three Tupolev TU-204 and six Antonov AN-158, supplied to Cubana between 2005 and 2015.
From that review came a comprehensive plan to put them back into operation, which specified the work to be done and the necessary spare parts. At that time the AIN specified that Moscow provided "most of the financing under sovereign guarantees to Cuba."
The Aviacion Online news portal detailed this Monday that the lack of suitable components for its Russian aircraft had prevented Cuba from previously carrying out fleet maintenance.
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