Tampa adds Santa Clara to Cuba flight destinations

Posted on Thursday, 10.03.13



Tampa adds Santa Clara to Cuba flight destinations

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS



TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa International Airport is adding a new destination

to its Cuba flight routes: Santa Clara.



The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/17tEUOK ) reports ABC Charters will

offer direct flights to the central Cuban city starting Dec. 4.



Tampa International Airport began offering flights to the island after

50 years in September 2011. ABC already flies once a week to Havana and

Holguin. It will add a second weekly flight to Havana on Nov. 5. Island

Travel & Tours also flies from Tampa to Havana three times a week,

meaning there could soon be seven flights to Cuba a week departing from

Tampa.



Airport CEO Joe Lopano noted the Tampa Bay area has the third largest

Cuban-American population in the U.S. More than 85,000 people have

departed from TIA to Cuba since 2011.



Information from: Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.),

http://www.tampabay.com.



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