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US airlines eager to fly to Cuba

US airlines eager to fly to Cuba
JetBlue, Delta, United airlines already expressing interest
Author: By Katie Lobosco and Rene Marsh
Published On: Jan 15 2015 08:03:36 PM EST Updated On: Jan 15 2015
08:26:47 PM EST

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -
It has been decades since U.S. airlines could make commercial flights
from the States to Cuba, but that is about to change.

JetBlue, Delta and United airlines are already expressing interest in
adding the route.

On Thursday, the White House announced details about new regulations
that will make it easier for Americans to travel to Cuba. They come
after President Obama said he would begin thawing relations with the
Communist country last month.

"We plan to serve Cuba, subject to government approvals, and look
forward to doing so from our global gateways of Newark and Houston," a
United spokesperson said Thursday.

Under the relaxed rules, travel agents and airlines can book tickets for
U.S. citizens to Cuba without a special license from the Treasury
Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

And Americans will be able to visit, so long as the trip meets certain
criteria. Those traveling to the island will also be allowed to use
credit cards, a restriction that complicated trips to Cuba in the past.

The policy change is shy of a complete lifting of the embargo, which
requires Congressional action. It came as part of a larger deal that
secured the release of Alan Gross, an American government subcontractor
who was imprisoned on the island for five years.

Details about the travel rules were just released on Thursday and the
Department of Transportation said that it expects many U.S. airlines
will be interested providing service on this route.

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