Yes and hopefully they add flights from Montreal as well. Actually flying in Varadero kind of dictated my trip for me. I would like to come back to Jibacoa some day.
I don’t know what will start up flights to Santiago and Camaguey again and the future looks bleak. I am happy though to have supported Cuba once again. Not looking forward to going home tomorrow. I wish I had Simon’s money! Jajaja!

I think even keeping the status quo in regards to flights to Cuba from Canada would be a win at this point. Flights to Camaguey or Santiago de Cuba are years away from reality. And I'm only rich when in Cuba. In Toronto, not so much.

Air Canada has no flights to Cuba until November. WestJet and Air Transat are still showing flights starting in May. Anyone think this will happen? An ultrabasic ticket from Toronto to Varadero is just over $300 r/t with WestJet.

Hey there, Simon. I'm beginning to have my doubts, but if just taking the needed jet fuel into consideration, I don't understand why Air Canada bailed when they could have just as easily entered into a contract for refueling on the trip back to Canada in the DR or the Bahamas. Easy peasy. And if they had to increase their pricing to compensate for that added necessity, than so be it! My hope is that both Sunwing and Air Transat are busy negotiating those contracts for refueling elsewhere now so they'll be ready to roll come May. I suppose we'll know if that's the case if their current online prices for flights bump up a bit soon.

Of course the other elephant in the room is what's going to happen once Captain Chaos is done with his illegal power grab in the middle east? He's saying that Cuba is next. Terry

At just over 300 bucks r/t I would actually maybe consider going for a week but the 80 usd taxi fare to Havana from Varadero that I paid in January I am sure has jumped up quite a bit. I have never been to Cuba in the summer and don’t plan to either, especially these days. Very hard to predict what will happen. I really hope it don’t get ugly.

The story of Cuba is of independence Che Guevara’s nephew once told me.

WestJet has followed Air Canada's lead and cancelled all flights to Cuba until November. AirTransat is still showing May flights. For now anyway.

Aaaaa! Well there we go! Just a matter of time - likely within the next 24 hours - and Air Transat is sure to follow as well. I've already decided though that I'll just wait to book Yudith to come HERE to Canada on October 25th - the first DIRECT flight out of Cayo Coco to Toronto - if of course that remains viable after the adjustment is made. She can stay here with me for 3 months and we'll both fly back to Cuba for Christmas / New Years together there in Camaguey with the rest of the family as usual. Terry

I still feel ripped off because I came home early. I should have just stayed in spite of objections and concerns from my family. I was just looking at flights through Miami with American Airlines.

AeroMexico flights to Havana via Mexico City are expensive. CopaAir has some good prices to Havana through Panama, but has an almost 9 hour layover on the first flight. I'm also thinking about flying with WestJet to Merida, Mexico and maybe spend a month or so there and make my way to Cuba after that.

Kudos to you Simon if you make it back to Cuba. If flights from Canada open up again, I would think about it, depending on the flights. Yeah winter is still hanging around these parts.

Things need to happen fairly quickly if I plan on returning soon. The main thing I am waiting for is regular shipments of oil to resume. I have no desire to be in Cuba during the summer. I'd like to go from mid April to mid June.

Our Cuba plans are finished for this year but we will definitely return next winter if things have normalized. If the usa has their dirty hand in there, we will go somewhere else.

Air Transat has moved its date to return to Cuba to mid June from May 1st.