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Alaska Airlines gets tentative approval for LA-Havana service
Alaska Airlines has received tentative approval from the Department of Transportation for daily nonstop service between Los Angeles and Havana, Cuba.
Alaska was the only carrier to propose daily nonstop services on the route.
"We applaud the DOT for making a fair and equitable decision given the high-level of interest and limited number of available departures," said Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden.
The Alaska Airlines flight will originate in Seattle with same plane service to Los Angeles and Havana.
The route is among 20 slots in Havana that were available to US carriers when the US government signed an agreement with Cuba to restore commercial air travel between the two countries after more than five decades.
The LA-Havana flight will be operated with a Boeing 737-900ER aircraft.
"Alaska looks forward to receiving a final order from the Department of Transportation and to starting service by the end of the year," added Tilden.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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