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Ten Cuban airports remain without aviation fuel until December 1

Aeronautical notices A3875/26 to A3884/26, issued on October 30 by the Cuban Air Navigation Company, keep Jet A-1 kerosene unavailable at ten terminals on the island until 04:00 UTC on December 1, 2026. The measure does not mean the airports are closed.

Each notice corresponds to a different terminal and all share the same expiry date, carrying the technical warning «JET A1 FUEL NOT AVBL». The one for José Martí International Airport in Havana, A3875/26, replaced A3459/26, which had been due to expire on November 1.

The ten affected facilities are the international airports José Martí in Havana; Juan Gualberto Gómez in Varadero; Abel Santamaría in Santa Clara; Ignacio Agramonte in Camagüey; Jardines del Rey in Cayo Coco; Frank País in Holguín; Antonio Maceo in Santiago de Cuba; Vilo Acuña in Cayo Largo del Sur; and the Jaime González airport in Cienfuegos and Sierra Maestra airport in Manzanillo.

The restriction concerns aircraft refuelling, not the closure of the terminals or the cancellation of all international flights. Airlines can load enough fuel at the departure airport for the outbound and return legs, where the aircraft type and route allow, or schedule technical stops in third countries. Copa Airlines loads extra fuel in Panama, as do the US carriers that keep their routes to the island; the added weight forces a slight cut in passenger capacity and the loss of some commercial cargo.

The situation began to be documented in February and has been rolled forward: in October the previous notices extended unavailability to November 1. Through 2026 various airlines reorganised operations, suspended routes or cut services.

Even so, the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa announced it will resume its Caracas-Havana flights on Friday, November 13, with two weekly frequencies on Wednesdays and Fridays, according to the specialist outlet Aviacionline; it will also resume service to Mexico City on November 17. The company has not publicly explained how it will fuel its flights to Havana.

In the opposite direction, Iberia will keep its direct Havana link cancelled until the end of June 2027 and Air Europa flies from Madrid with a technical stop in Punta Cana; Air China, which operates Beijing-Madrid-Havana and refuels in Nassau, ran up cancellations in October that stranded dozens of Cubans in Spain. The Spanish group Iberostar, owner of World2Meet, cancelled its Varadero programme from Portugal and will replace it from June 1, 2027, with a weekly charter between Lisbon and Isla Margarita, in Venezuela.

Sources: Infobae · 14ymedio

Data updated: 2026-11-11T04:15:00.000Z

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