Visiting Cuba

Havana

Booking flights to Havana is a little more complicated than booking a regular flight.

A lot of the hassle of booking flights to Havana and other cities in Cuba comes if you have to fly through the US to get there.

If you are flying from the US, you need to be on an entirely separate itinerary than your US segments.

This is because American carriers are not allowed to fly to Cuba.

The best way book flights to Havana do this is to simply call and make a reservation directly in the airline’s Mexico call center.

Look on Mexicana’s website and find the phone line for the Mexico City office.

They speak good English and can make your reservation.

You can pay for your flight to Havana in person at the airport of departure or you can pay by credit card over the phone.

Havana

Flights to Havana are operated by several different airlines.

If you’re going through Mexico City or Cancun to Havana, you can usually find good flights on Mexicana and Cubana.

Cubana is not the best of these, but they have a pretty good safety record for the volume of flights they do.

Typically you’ll pay US$300-500 for roundtrip flights from Havana to Mexico City.

Flights to Havana cost a little less if you take a flight from Cancun.

You can see and price flights to Havana online.

There is little competition on these routes, so don’t expect fares to go on sale much or at all.