{"id":48,"date":"2016-09-02T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-09-03T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T17:17:45","slug":"landmark-us-commercial-flight-lands-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2016\/09\/02\/landmark-us-commercial-flight-lands-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark US commercial flight lands in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BBC:\u00a0<\/strong>A US commercial flight has arrived in Cuba for the first time in more than half a century.<br \/>\nJetBlue Flight 387 had 150 passengers, including US transport secretary Anthony Foxx.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nTo commemorate the occasion, the plane received a water cannon salute, which traditionally marks a special occasion for a ship or aircraft.<br \/>\nWhat next for US-Cuba relations?<!--more--><br \/>\nUS-Cuba cruise ship: Passengers on an &#8217;emotional&#8217; crossing<br \/>\nSince 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.<br \/>\nThe Obama administration has approved 10 US-based airlines for regular passenger jet service to Cuba, offering as many as 110 daily flights.<br \/>\nThe approved airlines include: American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Sun Country and United Airlines.<br \/>\nTourism to Cuba is still banned in the US, but the Obama administration eased rules last year to make it easier for Americans to access the long-isolated nation under 12 categories of &#8220;authorised travel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC:\u00a0A US commercial flight has arrived in Cuba for the first time in more than half a century. 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. The flight marks the latest&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2016\/09\/02\/landmark-us-commercial-flight-lands-in-cuba\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}