United Airlines Opens Office in Havana
United Airlines, one of the ten airlines authorized last year by the U.S. Department of Transportation to offer schedule flights to Cuba, opened a sales outlet in Havana on Monday.
Nestled in the business area of La Rampa, on the corner of 23rd Avenue and O Street in Vedado, United Airlines will be sharing office space with Air Canada, according to what Mr. Damian Bruder, United Airlines’ sales representative, who has come to Cuba in order to complete the training of the staff that will be working at the office, starting today April 24, told Caribbean News Digital.
UA is operating a daily flight to Havana from Newark Airport in New Jersey and is adding a second flight on Saturdays from Houston’s international airport, in Texas.
United Airlines will be flying to Cuba with Boeing 737-800 aircraft, seating 110 to 200 passengers.
As a subsidiary of United Continental Holdings, United Airlines operates nine hubs in the United States continental territory and it moves over 16 million passengers a year.
The company is a founding member of Star Alliance, the largest strategic alliance of the world, which offers airlift to over a thousand destinations in 170 countries.
