Cuba Allows Mexican Flights to Resume

Granma reports that tomorrow, Monday, June 1st, flights from Mexico to La Habana can resume.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/mayo/vier29/Informational-Note.html

The Castros essentially ended all flights from Mexico on April 30th...because of their swine flu fears.

For those tourists who have been anxiously tanning their heels for days...or even weeks...on Cancun's beaches, waiting for flights to resume...relief finally appears imminent.

I say appears...IMMINENT.

I would DREAD cueing up for tomorrow's first flights...on Click or Cubana.

Or, for that matter, even for several days afterwards.

The colas...just to buy tickets at the tiny, one-person Cancun airport counters...will be PURE HELL...as only an experienced Cuban visitor can appreciate!

It will resemble La Habana's usual... long... 5 peso pizza lines..at lunch time!

Then there's the planes themselves : tons of oversized luggage in the overheads and even the aisles, no empty seats, miserably humid heat because of lousy ACs in the dilapidated Russian and American planes that make the CUN-LAH run.

But, for the grace of God...and the recent termination of VivaAerobus flights from Austin, Texas...go I.

After getting there... Cuba in junio...is no picnic.

Except for the mangoes! Yum!

They are size of nerf footballs...and sweeter than any Mexican variety I have ever tasted in the US.

And super cheap. Maybe 5 pesos....each...at season's height (about $.20 US).