Boarding soon: Cuba flights from Windsor

Source: The Detroit News

Monday, July 21, 2008
Boarding soon: Cuba flights from Windsor
New service may entice more Detroiters despite federal trip restrictions.
Nathan Hurst / The Detroit News

WINDSOR -- A new jet service taking off in December from Windsor Airport will bring the allure of a forbidden Cuban vacation within minutes of downtown Detroit.

Sunwing Airlines, a Canadian leisure carrier, will offer weekly flights to Varadero, Cuba, a popular beach resort about 50 miles east of the capital, Havana.

While U.S. citizens are mostly barred from spending money on travel to Cuba, officials with the airline and airport expect Americans to make up at least half the passengers on the route.

"On average, about 50 percent or more of passengers flying to Cuba from Canada are from the U.S.," said Federica Nazzani, Windsor Airport's manager. "Given our unique geographic position near Metro Detroit, we're expecting at least that."

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The link has additional information about travel to Cuba.

Anyway, you can fly to Cuba from lots of places in Canada. I went there myself some years ago, and I highly recommend going!

...all of which are closer than 100km from the US border. Why a flight from Windsor is such a big deal, I have no idea.

And is basically the non-violent, Canadian half
of Detroit.

which is also very close to the border. So I don't know.

go as far as it does in Cuba anymore....Since the slimy deregulating, corporate, imperialist, greedy republicans & their fucked-up ideology destroyed our economy!

Things are quite expensive for foreigners in Cuba. There's the Moneda Nacional, which Cubans use, and there's Moneda Convertible, which is pegged to the USD and foreigners must use them.

If you want cheap, Argentina is still recovering from their meltdown from 2001 and their currency is still cheap.