Jun 29, 2009 1:57 pm US/Pacific
Continental Offers Direct Flights From LAX To Cuba
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Continental Airlines is now offering direct flights from LAX to Havana.
AP
Direct flights from Los Angeles to Havana, Cuba, will resume Tuesday, two months after President Barack Obama vowed to ease travel restrictions to the country.
Cuba Travel Services will offer a flight from LAX every Tuesday. The Boeing 737-800 jetliner operated by Continental Airlines will depart at 11 a.m.
"We are excited to resume the non-stop flights out of LAX to Havana that were in such high demand prior to the Bush administration's restrictions imposed on Cuban Americans that limited their ability to visit with their families in Cuba," said Cuba Travel Services' general manager, Michael Zuccato.
Most travel from the United States to Cuba has been banned since an embargo was imposed in 1962, but Cuban-Americans had been allowed to visit under various policies since then.
Nearly five years ago, however, President George W. Bush's administration limited trips to once every three years, and narrowed definitions of who could accompany them as family members.
Obama lifted those travel restrictions in April.
Cuba Travel hopes to attract some of the 100,000 Cuban Americans living in California -- 85,000 of them in the Los Angeles area alone.
The company also hopes to provide service for journalists, government officials, researchers and sports teams cleared for travel to Cuba.
For more information, visit the company's Web page:
Cuba Travel Services.
(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)
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