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July 24 A man born in Cuba successfully hijacks a DC-8 from Miami to Cuba, a stewardess and a passenger are wounded. [27] September 3 A man born in Cuba, attempts to hijack a plane from Chicago to Cuba; he is sentenced to 20 years for interference with a flight crew on March 6, 1972. [39]
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."
ViajeHoy, LLC trading as Havana Air is a virtual airline offering scheduled charter services from Miami and Tampa, Florida to Cuba. [1] The company was founded in the United States in 2007 and specializes in tourism to Cuba from the United States.
Mayorkas’ visit to Miami included meetings with members of the Haitian- and Cuban-American communities. Deportation flights to Cuba have not yet resumed, DHS chief says during Miami visit Skip ...
One of the top immigration officials in the U.S. wants the federal government to resume direct deportation flights to Venezuela and increase repatriations to Cuba, both countries from which ...
In late 2020, GlobalX formed CubaX, a tour operator that provides weekly non-stop flights from Miami to Havana, Cuba. In 2021, CubaX began operating daily charter flights using GlobalX aircraft. [5] As demand increases, the airline will add more routes in partnership with large tour operators in other key markets.
From December 1965 to early 1973, under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, twice daily "Freedom Flights" (Vuelos de la Libertad) transported émigrés from Varadero Beach to Miami. The longest airlift of political refugees, [ citation needed ] it transported 265,297 Cubans to the United States with the help of religious and volunteer agencies.
Three men, Melvin Cale, Louis Moore, and Henry D. Jackson Jr., successfully hijacked a Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 that was scheduled to fly from Memphis, Tennessee, to Miami, Florida, via Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, and Orlando, Florida. [2] [3] [4] The three were each facing criminal charges for unrelated incidents. [2]