11 Senators Sign Letter Asking DOT/State To Reverse Cuba Flight Changes; Only One Senator From State With Flights To Cuba

On 1 November 2019, United States Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), Tom Udall (D-New Mexico), Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), and Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) sent a letter to the United States Department of State and United States Department of Transportation. 

The letter requests the Trump Administration to re-instate regularly-scheduled commercial airline services for airports in the Republic of Cuba in addition to Jose Marti International Airport (HAV) in Havana, Republic of Cuba. 

Of the senators signing the letter, only one is from a state which has regularly-scheduled commercial airline service to the Republic of Cuba: Massachusetts.  Senator Edward Markey (D- Massachusetts) did not sign the letter. 

There are no senators signing the letter from the other states that have regularly-scheduled commercial airline services to the Republic of Cuba: Florida, Georgia, New York, and Texas. 

LINK TO TEXT OF LETTER

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