Icelandair airline has received approval to operate charter flights between the United States of America and Cuba. The Department of Transportation has approved the wet lease application for World Atlantic Airlines.

In the run-up there was considerable resistance from trade unions and the airline Swift Air. However, this did not impress the decision-makers, who gave the go-ahead for up to 31 rotations per week. It is planned that Boeing 757s will be used on behalf of World Atlantic Airlines between various US cities and Cuba.

Incidentally, this is not the first cooperation of this kind, because this year Icelandair was already on duty for Anmart Air from three American cities in the direction of Cuba. "We believe that there is sufficient reciprocity with Iceland to grant the airline's extra-bilateral request under the circumstances and note that there is no evidence from either side that the Icelandic government has accepted charter requests from US airlines with." of the seventh freedom," the DoT said of the decision.