Last month, the United States and Cuba signed an agreement allowing scheduled flights between the two countries to resume. U.S.-based airlines will be allowed to operate 20 daily scheduled flights to Havana, plus 10 daily scheduled flights to each of nine other international airports in Cuba. Airlines had to file their route requests last week. Unsurprisingly, there wasn't much competition for the rights to fly to Cuba's secondary airports. However, airlines proposed more than twice as many flights to Havana as the U.S. government is allowed to allocate. In fact, two airlines — American Airlines and JetBlue Airways — together requested more than 100% of the available frequencies to Havana....
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