{"id":58395,"date":"2016-09-01T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T07:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58395"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T12:55:40","slug":"first-us-commercial-flight-lands-in-cuba-in-over-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/first-us-commercial-flight-lands-in-cuba-in-over-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"First US commercial flight lands in Cuba in over 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>JetBlue Airways became the first U.S. passenger airline to complete a commercial flight to Cuba in 50 years.<\/h1>\n<p>JetBlue Flight 387 had 150 passengers, including US transport secretary Anthony Foxx. The plane took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 09:45 EDT (13:45 GMT) and landed in Santa Clara in central Cuba about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>According to BBC News, the flight marks the latest development between US and Cuba since they restored diplomatic ties in December 2014.<br \/>\nThe last time an American airline flew scheduled service to Cuba was more than 50 years ago on a propeller plane, according to Marty St George, the executive vice president of JetBlue.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the occasion, the plane received a water cannon salute, which traditionally marks a special occasion for a ship or aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Since the US thawed relations with Cuba, embassies have been re-opened in Washington and Havana, President Barack Obama visited the country and a US cruise ship sailed to the island nation in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has approved 10 US-based airlines for regular passenger jet service to Cuba, offering as many as 110 daily flights.<\/p>\n<p>The approved airlines include: American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Sun Country and United Airlines.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue Airways became the first U.S. passenger airline to complete a commercial flight to Cuba in 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,14],"tags":[943,629,26151,542,6328,28159],"class_list":["post-58395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-world","tag-american-airlines","tag-barack-obama","tag-delta-airlines","tag-obama","tag-santa-clara","tag-us-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}