Venezuelan Conviasa begins flights between Cuba and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The Venezuelan airline Conviasa will link Cuba with Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesstarting next March 31.

The Cuban embassy in Kingstown reported that the flights will be direct and “will make it possible to link the three sister nations,” but did not specify whether they have the José Martí International Airport in Havana as their destination.

For its part, the Cuban Empresa de Aeropuertos y Servicios Aeroportuarios S.A ECASA does not include the new Conviasa destination in its list of confirmed flights.

Until now, Conviasa will continue operating with the following frequencies during February:

- Monday, Wednesday and Sunday from Caracas.

- Monday, Wednesday and Sunday to Managua.

- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from Managua.

- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday to Caracas.

- Saturdays from Las Piedras (Paraguaná) and towards Managua.

- Sundays from Managua and to Las Piedras (Paraguaná).

The Cuban government indicated that the start of operations responds to the agreements assumed during the president's visit to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Miguel Diaz-Canel and accordingLatin Press, responds “to regional integration efforts towards greater air connectivity with the Eastern Caribbean.”

The Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services (Conviasa) made its first flight in November 2004, becoming certified as a commercial airline. A month later it formally began its domestic and international flight operations.

In February 2020, the United States extended its sanctions against Venezuela andblocked commercial airline operations, based in Caracas, considering that its fleet served Nicolás Maduro for "corrupt practices."

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) executed the measure in order to "reduce misuse of the airline by the Maduro regime."

Two years later, in October, the airlineweekly flights to Cuba increased to 10, opening a new Havana-Las Piedras route in the Paraguaná free zone, in Venezuela.

“Travelers will have another alternative to reach a free zone similar to those in Cancun, in Mexico, and Panama,” he told the official.ACN the representative of Conviasa in Cuba.

A Boeing belonging to Emtrasur Cargo, a subsidiary of Conviasa,was involved last June in a geopolitical scandal and was detained by the Argentine justice system, something thatworried the Cuban delegation who traveled to the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in that country. And the Cuban president's last international trips have been made aboard a Conviasa aircraft.