News about direct flights between Cuba and Bolivia

Currently, there are no direct flight options on the route between Bolivia and Cuba. The closest are Cubana de Aviación flights to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, and use it as a stopover to get to Bolivia or transfer by Copa Airlines to Tocumen in Panama and from there to Vero Ferro International Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. .

But according to a note from a local news agency, the Bolivian airline (BoA), which acquired two new planes this week and will renew its long-haul fleet, could turn that around this year, especially for the second semester. In this department, connections to Lima, Peru would be re-established as a priority, but it was later planned to enable flights to the Caribbean.

“We have already prepared the opening in Lima, which we hope to do in February, the first weeks, we are finalizing the details of the technical part, the certification and all these components that we need. We already have the regional office in Lima, and then we will think about some other ways leading up to the Caribbean, basically; we also already have some studies and hopefully that will become more realistic in 2022, He said Bolivian Airlines (BOA) director Ronald Caso.

Bolivia de aviacion ended the year with signs of market and operations recovery. According to Casso, even with a higher rate than in 2019, the thing that motivates them to keep creating tracks. Most flights currently arrive in Bolivia from Miami, USA, and Madrid, Spain.

Flights to Cuba from Bolivia

In June of last year, we reported from our network, Cuban ambassador to Bolivia, Danilo Sanchez, who mediated between Bolivia and Cubana to agree on at least one flight between the two countries. Both agreed that it was an old wish that could soon be fulfilled.

Sanchez specified that these conversations between airlines had been developing for a long time. The route will depart from Santa Cruz to the cities of Havana, Varadero or Santa Clara. Those were the initial options. “There are not many flights from the southern part of the continent,” they said. Something they set out to improve.

They also confirmed that the demand for flights to Cuba from that Andean country has grown by more than 30%, due to scholarship holders studying on the island, more than 3,000 Cubans residing in Bolivia, as well as tour operators. For years, Director Caso has expressed himself for a direct relationship with Cuba and the Dominican Republic due to their exponential growth in tourism. The idea is to raise frequencies and tracks.