The Russian airline Nordwind will begin December 25 charter flights between Moscow and Holguin, in the Cuban east region, from what will be the first time in the history of the relationships between that Euro-Asian country and the biggest island in the Antilles that both cities are connected directly.
As Maikel Robelt Futiel, Commercial specialist of the Ministry of Tourism’s office in Holguín informed, the flights, which will operate a Boeing 777-300 airplane will have a frequency every eleven days until the next March 21, although there are been perspectives of extend the route until coming October.
The new air route is carried out through the modality of package tour with the Nordwind Airlines - created in December 2008 - and the tour operator Pegas Touristik. According to data facilitated by the tourist reservation office of Cubanacán Travels’ Agency, for the first trip are booked almost 300 seats of the 312 that has the airplane and the next flights also have, up to now, very good acceptance, the official said.
Robelt Futiel explained that to take on this new market with high quality standards, the tourist destination prepared conditions meanly regarding some basic knowledge of Russian language among tourist guides and hotel staff; culinary customs and other preferences of the new visitors, as well as a varied tourist attraction catalog was conceived, among them such options as nautical activities and to do sightseeing to the cities of Gibara and Holguín.
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