{"id":589,"date":"2016-02-17T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:16:10","slug":"state-department-announces-u-s-cuba-air-service-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"State Department announces U.S. and Cuba air service agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department has announced that the U.S. and Cuba have\u00a0signed an air services agreement.\u00a0The agreement was\u00a0officially signed on Tuesday, and opens up\u00a0scheduled flights between the two countries.\u00a0The agreement does not effect the current\u00a0charter flights\u00a0already being flown.\u00a0Airlines interested in operating the routes must apply\u00a0by March 2. Several U.S. carriers already have indicated that they will apply to D.O.T. for rights to serve Cuba.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-594\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cuba-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cuba\" width=\"453\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cuba-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cuba.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department has announced that the U.S. and Cuba have signed an air services agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[57,67,56],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-air-service-agreement","tag-aviation-news","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}