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Freedom Flights (known in Spanish as Los vuelos de la libertad) transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973. [1] [2] [3] Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "largest airborne refugee operation in American history."
In 2023, public charter airline JSX announced it would move all of its Miami operations into the Opa-Locka Executive Airport. The company, which focuses on providing passengers with easy access to flights, decides that the smaller airport would improve ease of access and reduce the costs and complexities of operating at a bigger airport such as Miami International.
Empresa Cubana de Aeropuertos y Servicios Aeronáuticos S.A. (ECASA) is a government-owned company which operates 22 airports in Cuba, [1] [2] including José Martí International Airport, which serves Havana. Other responsibilities of ECASA include air traffic control, aviation safety, check-in and baggage handling. [3]
Guided by a U.S. Coast Guard interceptor, he landed just before dawn at Opa-Locka Airport just north of Miami. [6] June 7, 1996 Lieutenant Colonel José Fernández Pupo hijacks a Cubana An-2 with 10 passengers, flying from Bayamo to Santiago de Cuba, demanding at gunpoint to land in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. On May 29, 1997, he was declared ...
The result was a County-owned, Miami International Airport based at NW 36th Street that by 1948 had grown to 2500 acres. The former domed-roofed Pan Am terminal building was extensively remodeled and enlarged, the words “Miami International Airport” now curving across its façade. The new airport was officially dedicated January 4, 1950.
The airline was established by the Cuban army and started operations in 1994. and is wholly owned by the Government of Cuba, run by Corporación de la Aviación Civil S.A of Cuba. [ 3 ]
A Cubana Bristol Britannia 318 at Jorge Chávez International Airport in 1972. The carrier received the first of these aircraft in December 1958. [8]The airline was established by Clement Melville Keys on 8 October 1929 as Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss S.A., initially as a flying school as well as a charter carrier, beginning scheduled services in 1930.
The Cubans arriving after 1980 have closer ties to those remaining in Cuba. They tend to take charter flights to and from Miami to Cuba. [2] In 2016 Hillary Clinton performed better than Obama in several heavily Cuban American neighborhoods. [15] In Miami-Dade County, in the 2020 election, Cuban Americans tended to vote for Donald Trump. [16]