Last year, California-based Cuba Travel Services launched, with great fanfare, the first direct charter flights between Puerto Rico and Cuba since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.
JetBlue Airways, Puerto Rico's largest carrier, was granted Monday a “beyond-perimeter” slot exemption from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which will enable it to launch new nonstop "capital-to-capital" service from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. The carrier expects to start service in the fall.
American Airlines’ cycle as the leading carrier at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport could officially come to an end on June 1, if the U.S. Bankruptcy Court approves its petition to turn over the $350 million, 370,000 square-foot terminal facility it built in 1986 to the Puerto Rico Port Authority, News is my Business learned.
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