Hurricane Irma: the tour of Cuba to be evacuated by the tourists

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 22:30

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 23:31

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MONTREAL – After the islands of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, already ravaged by hurricane Irma, and the dominican Republic, it is the turn of tourists stranded in Cuba to be evacuated by the airlines prior to the passage of the storm.

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On Wednesday, the airline Air Transat has announced that it is sending ten aircraft to Cuba, which is four to Varadero, three to Santa Clara, two to Cayo Coco, and one to Holguin. These devices will allow the repatriation of more than 1800 passengers. All should be back in Canada in the afternoon or in the late evening on Thursday.

Wednesday, the tour operator has sent ten aircraft to the dominican Republic to repatriate approximately 2000 tourists.

For its part, Air Canada announced late in the evening on Wednesday, that it affrétait 24 additional aircraft to the destination Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Florida, Antigua and Providenciales. Larger devices that are initially anticipated will also be sent to Havana (Cuba) and Nassau (Bahamas).

In total, Air Canada will add more than 6,000 seats in the north direction, in addition to flights already scheduled during the three-day period between Tuesday, September 5 and Thursday 7 September,” explained the company in a press release.

For its part, Sunwing has also indicated that they have set up special flights to the destination of Cuba to pick up the travellers to cut short their vacation before the arrival of the hurricane, which has already destroyed between 60 and 95 % of the homes on the island of St. Martin, according to the French authorities.

The three airlines have also put in place programmes to allow passengers who were to fly to the south to change their flights or their destination, depending on the policies of the various tour operators.