On June 6, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) approved six US carriers to begin scheduling commercial flights to Cuba. They are American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Jetblue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines and Sun Country Airlines.
The approved destination cities in Cuba do not include Havana, but the DOT is expected to approve airline routes to Havana by the end of summer. United Airlines and Delta Air Lines both have requested Havana routes.
12 days, 11 nights in PERU. Highlights: Lima city tour/fly to Arequipa/Pampa Cañahuas National Reserve, home to vicuñas, alpacas/see condors from Cruz del Condor point/from Puno, visit floating islands of the Uros in Lake Titicaca/Cusco/Sacred Valley/Vistadome train to Aguas Calientes/Machu Picchu. From £1,330 (near $1,917) ppdo, incl. internal flights. Single supp., £399 ($575). Peruvian Secrets (Penycwm, Tyn-y-Gongl, Wales, LL74 8RG, U.K.; sales@peruvian
secrets.co.uk, www.peruviansecrets. co.uk).
The following information is for extremely thrifty budget travelers.
An EgyptAir plane, flight MS804 heading from Paris to Cairo, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19 shortly after airport tower operators in Greece lost contact with the pilots. There were 56 passengers and 10 crew on board, and all are presumed dead. It was later revealed that in-flight systems had reported two smoke alarms being set off on board before contact was lost.
My wife, Debby, and I are on an 18-month tour of Europe, and we wanted to share some travel snippets with fellow ITN readers.
Two airlines, Lufthansa and LATAM, announced that they would be suspending flights to Venezuela. Because of monetary restrictions in that country, it is difficult to exchange Venezuelan bolivars into US dollars, causing foreign companies doing business there to lose a great deal of money due to Venezuela’s high inflation rate, currently averaging 481.5%.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 485th issue of your monthly foreign travel magazine.
My 2015 “bucket list” trip to Peru came into focus in mid-July, when I realized that I would be turning 80 at the end of September of that year.
