• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 08 / 04 / 2011

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By TED JACKOVICS | The Tampa Tribune. Published: August 04, 2011. Eight airports this week in addition to Tampa International Airport were granted landing rights in Cuba for charter flights.

The cities are Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Palm Harbor-based travel service provider Scand-America International announced it would arrange travel services to Cuba from the Tampa area, where two companies have been approved to provide flights from Tampa International.

The United States has recently authorized more than a dozen of its airports to handle Cuba traffic. Previously Miami, New York's JFK and Los Angeles International were the only U.S. options for direct service to Cuba.

President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on Cuban-Americans' travel home to see relatives in 2009, leading to a boom in such visits.

Source: /www2.tbo.com/business/business/2011/aug/04/more-airports-granted-cuba-landing-rights-ar-248183/