The trips, which
began on Tuesday and will continue operating until May 1st,
will initially link the city of Buenos Aires with eastern
Cuba, and will promote tourist exchanges between the two
countries, the Prensa Latina (PL) news agency reported.
With a capacity for 300 passengers, the flights will take
place every Tuesday, with Boeing 767 airplanes.
The project, scheduled for the entire year, turns Argentina
into the second country with the largest amount of direct
air connections with several Cuban regions, after Canada.
The source adds that during the first four months of 2012,
the number of weekly flights will increase to eight –six of
which will take place by way of Cubana Airlines- between the
Argentinean capital and Havana, Varadero, Cayo Largo, Cayo
Coco, Santa Clara and Holguin.
Until December 12, over 73,000 Argentinean vacationers had
arrived in Cuba, for a 30.2 percent increase of that tourist
market.
Argentina is among the first eight countries sending
tourists to the island, and the Latin American nation with
the largest number of vacationers arriving in Cuba,
according to the head of the Cuban Tourist Information and
Promotion Office for the Southern Cone, Luis Felipe, during
his conversation with PL.
