Alaska Airlines.

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Alaska Airlines will launch historic new flying to Havana, Cuba, on January 5, 2017. The daily nonstop flight from Los Angeles is among the first regularly scheduled commercial flights to the island country in more than fifty years and is the only nonstop flight to Cuba from the West Coast. The flights were awarded by the US Department of Transportation in August and remain subject to approval by the Cuban aviation authorities. Travel to Cuba requires advance planning: the US...