Specialized aviation media confirmed this week that Aerolíneas Argentinas will cancel its flights

to Havana, the Cuban capital, between February and March of this year.

According to the

magazine Aviationclubcenter, starting in March Aerolíneas Argentinas will suspend its international operations from Buenos Aires. However, another source, Aviación News, pointed out that the suspension would begin next February.

This flight, which previously made a stop at Punta Cana International Airport in the Dominican Republic

, operates with an Airbus A330 with a capacity for 272 passengers, distributed across 24 business class seats and 248 in economy class.

In 2022, when flights to Cuba were reactivated, the Argentine company had three weekly frequencies

, but in 2023 these were reduced due to low demand, and currently, there is only one connection per week, on Fridays.

Aviación News stated that the reasons for the suspension were both commercial and political. Prim

arily, the route is no longer profitable for the company, and secondly, following the rise to power of Javier Milei, there would be “ideological prejudices.”

The suspension of Aerolíneas Argentinas flights to Cuba from Buenos Aires occurred earlier, during

the presidential term of Mauricio Macri, between 2015 and 2019.

In April 2022, after six years of absence, the state-owned Aerolíneas Argentinas announced the

a href="https://adncuba.com/noticias-de-cuba/actualidad/aerolineas-argentinas-reanudara-vuelos-cuba">resumption of its flights to Havana in July of that year.

According to the airline's official statement, flights would be operated on B737–MAX aircraft and

would include a stop in Punta Cana both outbound and return. The operational days from Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires would be Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, with a return the following day.p>

“We have prior experience operating there; it is a highly requested flight by tour operators and

travel agencies due to latent demand, and we believe it will complement very well with the flight to Punta Cana. Furthermore, it is always great news to recover destinations that have been abandoned,” said Pablo Ceriani, the president of Aerolíneas Argentinas, at that time.

In addition to Aerolíneas Argentinas, the other airline operating flights between Cuba and Argentina

from Havana is the national Cubana de Aviación.