Silver Airways will apply to the U.S. Department of Transportation to serve most, if not all, of the 10 Cuba destinations approved under the new bilateral agreement between Cuba and the U.S. Meanwhile, its board has begun evaluating a range of strategic growth and investment options for the airline.

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Air China will extend its existing Beijing-Montreal service on to Havana on a one-stop basis from December 27.

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Haiti-based regional airline Sunrise Airways will expand its Western Caribbean route network on October 30 by launching twice-weekly scheduled service from its hub at Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport to the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba.

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This spring Air Canada’s leisure-carrier subsidiary, Air Canada rouge, is taking over eight routes previously operated by Air Canada from Toronto and Montreal to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, The Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Cancun and Tampa.

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Haitian regional airline Sunrise Airways has received approval from Haiti’s Civil Aviation Authority and the Instituto de Aeronáutica Civil de Cuba to operate regular charter flights between its home base in Port-au-Prince and Holguín, a resort city in southeastern Cuba, beginning this fall.

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In addition to the 14 routes which Air Canada’s new leisure-airline brand will serve from July 1, Air Canada rouge will add seasonal flights operating from October through March to another 13 sunspot destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Florida and Southwestern U.S. for “snowbird” winter-season leisure travelers.

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WestJet will fly between Toronto and Santa Clara weekly each Friday from November 5, 2010 to April 29, 2011.

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Canadian carrier WestJet is featuring three new destinations, 10 new routes and expanded service on more than 30 other routes in its winter schedule for 2010-2011. Many of the new routes are to Caribbean sunspot destinations.

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