This Monday after 9 a.m., the airline Delta has restored its flights to Havana with two daily departures. The first of them left in the morning, and the second took off at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
Delta returned to the Cuban market in 2016 after a 55-year hiatus, but suspended service in March 2020 following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yoel Reyes, who travels to Havana with Delta, confesses: “I like it. I like traveling with Delta and I’m not an employee of them… Sounds good to me. I flew with Delta for a long time, before COVID-19, and it seems to me that it is quite efficient, economical and punctual.
Unlike competitor American Airlines, Delta allows two bags on trips to Havana.
For his part, Luis Omar Guillot, affirms that “it’s a pretty good option, I agree and it seems good to me… Very good. Better than the American and all the others”.
According to experts in the travel and tourism industry, the return of Delta to Havana brings something positive, namely that “there will be competition, which is the most important and that is the advantage that customers who travel to the island will have, “notes Yfraín Villazón, of the Miami travel agency, Café Travel.
For similar dates, American and Delta already have matching prices. However, Delta still has to cover other destinations in Cuba, to which charters and American Airlines fly, after commercial flights to Cuban provinces were restored in June last year after a ban imposed by the administration of Donald Trump had been implemented in 2019.
The political analyst Michel Suárez considers that “no había absolutamente ninguna razón para que las personas qui viven fuera de la capital del país, que est un territorio en el sólo inhabit el 20% de los cubanos, tuvieran so many difficulties para acceder via aérea a UNITED STATES”.