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Not So Friendly Cuban Skies

The dour economy may have crimped Boricuas' travel plans, but if we think we have it tough, just look at our Cuban neighbors. As Cuban-Americans fly more often to their ancestral island, charter companies are salivating as they look to accumulate profits that may reach some $12 million by 2010.

Charter companies are the solution for Cuban-Americans flying down to visit their island relatives, since stateside airlines still can't fly to Cuba, according to a recent story in The New York Times. Despite the Obama administration's ease on travel restrictions, cubanos continue to contend with ticket and fuel price hikes, plus a $100 to $133 landing-rights fee per passenger, paid to the Cuban government.

Only about seven or eight charters can fly to the island, and they are not cheap. Round-trip tickets start from $500 and, because there are so few charters with landing rights in Cuba, travellers have no choice but to deal with it. —A.S.F.
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Not So Friendly Cuban Skies
The dour economy may have crimped Boricuas' travel plans, but if we think we have it tough, just look at our Cuban neighbors. As Cuban-Americans fly more often to their ancestral island, charter companies are salivating as they look to accumulate profits that may reach some $12 million by 2010.
  
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