Cuba Travel News and Information
Cuba News and Information
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More options to the sun, those generous Sunwing Airlines inflight inclusions, and even more departure points from Canada: winter 2008-09 is already shaping up as a banner season for Sunwing Vacations.
In all, Sunwing will be flying to 30 sunny spots in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and the U.S. With the addition of six new gateways, the company will be flying from 25 cities across the country.
As part of the company’s philosophy of “bringing the plane to your door,” Sunwing has added even more mid-sized centres to its list of gateways. The sun has come just a little closer to Kelowna, BC (with flights to Cancun and the Riviera Maya); Windsor (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Varadero, Cuba); Hamilton (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Varadero); Kitchener (Cancun and the Riviera Maya as well as Jamaica); Sault Ste. Marie (Varadero) and Val d’Or, Quebec (Varadero).
There are also a host of new routes as well. Las Vegas has been added from Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. Montreal is adding Florida. Jamaica will now be served from Ottawa and Quebec City. And Manitobans will enjoy a host of new options to escape winter with new destinations served from Winnipeg to Mexico (Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta), Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic and Camaguay in Cuba.
“And our hotels are hand-picked for the Canadian market,” says Daryl McWilliams, vice-president of sales and marketing at Sunwing. “Whether you’re looking for a family vacation and you’re on a tight budget – or you’re on your honeymoon and the sky’s the limit, we guarantee there’s a Sunwing package perfect for your needs.”
Reservations are now open for all of Sunwing’s holidays and flights for next winter.
I that cruise ship companies cannot dock in the US for six months after docking in Cuba due to the 45+ year old failed Plan A Embargo so wouldn’t this apply for Sunwing too?
If a Sunwing plane lands in Cuba, is it banned from landing in the US for six months?
Does this apply to the entire airline or just to the airplane itself. Or, does this rule not apply to airlines?
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why limit to sunwing. Air Canada and Westjet are scheduled carriers that fly both to Cuba, as well as USA. Many European carriers, both charter and scheduled carriers fly both to Cuba and the USA.
If it refers only to the specific plane, tehn Sunwing would be more prone to be affected though - think they only have 6 planes in their fleet.
Btw, love flying Sunwing - used them for 3 of my 4 trips to Cuba (used Cubana on the other one).
Great. This is nothing against Sunwing but more towards the stupid Embargo.
Royal Caribbean bought Pullmantur out of Spain and now Pullmantur cannot sail into Havana anymore.
Just wondering if this restriction applies to airlines.
Probably a selective restriction like most of the other Cuba sanctions.
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As an aside, Iceland was reprimanded last year for using their American made aircraft to fly to Cuba. They have complied but I don’t remember how that was accomplished.
maybe thats why Sunwing uses Airbuses (and the time I flew with Cubana it was also an Airbus). When I flew with Cubana I was surprised that they did fly over American airspace, was kind of expecting a wide detour over theh Atlantic.
My flights to Cuba on Air Canada have been on Embraer (Brazil) airliners. Nice planes.
if you mean the E-90, yes its a really nice plane. Flew on Air Canada inside Canada a few times on one.
Just found this article too:
Sunwing to run sun charters from John C. Munro airport
The Hamilton Spectator
Sunwing Airlines is the latest charter service to be added to the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport roster.
From mid-December until next April, the Canadian vacation company will be running flights to Varadero, Cuba on Tuesdays and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on Saturdays.
“Right from the beginning, we’ve been known for serving mid-sized Canadian cities as well as the largest ones” Daryl McWilliams, vice-president of sales and marketing at Sunwing, said in a statement. “Hamilton suits our expansion plans perfectly, given the population size, demographics and excellent travel agent community.”
Sunwing operates out of 25 Canadian and two Florida airports to a variety of domestic and international destinations offering all-inclusive packages. It will fly one of its own planes, a Boeing 737, out of Hamilton.
Sunwing was listed by Profit Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in Canada the past two years.
Steve Howse, director of communications for the airport, said it has been looking for a company to offer flights to Cuba to meet market demand.
“The big reason for Sunwing to come here is that we are a lower cost airport,” said Howse.
“They also want access to this marketplace with about 3.2 million people.”
Other travel companies running passenger flights out of the airport include Transat Vacations, Sunquest, Flyglobespan, Air Canada and WestJet.
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