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Cuban Aviation Airlines restarts direct flights between Havana and Caracas

The airline will fly on Sundays in an aircraft with capacity for 212 passengers.

Aeronave Tupolev © Facebook/Amantes de la Aviación Cubana
Aeronave Tupolev Photo © Facebook/Cuban Aviation Lovers

Cuban Aviation It restarted direct flights between Caracas and Havana on February 25.

The airline has started flying on Sundays departing Cuba at 7:45 a.m. and arrival in Caracas at 11:00 a.m. (Venezuela time).

The return trip from the South American country is scheduled for the same day, departing at 1:00 p.m. (Venezuela time) and arrival in Havana at 4:15 p.m. (local time).

According to web from the airline, the round-trip ticket for the period from March 17 to 24 -first available at this time- It has a price of around $835.. The cost includes taxes, surcharges and supplements.

Capture of a ticket to travel to Caracas from March 17 to 24 (Source: Captura from Cubana.cu)

According to the state company on Facebook, you can fly without checked luggage or add up to four suitcases of 23 kilograms each.

Additional luggage can be sold in advance at sales offices for $120 per suitcase. Purchase on the same day of the flight increases to $150.

The trip “without luggage” will cost $250. If the traveler wants to bring two suitcases, the ticket will cost $425, and if the traveler wants to bring four, $750.

Capture of Facebook/Cuban Aviation

The flights are carried out in a Tupolev TU-204 aircraft, Russian plane arrived in the country in September and since the end of last year He was reincorporated into the battered Cubana fleet. It is a twin-engine, narrow-body aircraft with capacity for 212 passengers.

Last year, about five thousand Cubans traveled to Isla Margarita, in Venezuela, to buy items and resell them on the island.

Statistics from the Chamber of Commerce of the Nueva Esparta state, to which the Venezuelan tourist island belongs, revealed that Cubans spent 17 million dollars on Margarita Island alone in a period of 12 months.

The trips of Cubans to Margarita Island were fundamentally to buy tax-exempt products in the midst of a harsh context of shortages in Cuba

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