CBP to Update List of Approved Airports for Cuban Travel
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will update its list of airports approved to accept aircraft traveling to or from Cuba, according to a notice to be published in the Federal Register April 20, 2012. Part 122, subpart O, of the CBP regulations sets forth special procedures that apply to all aircraft (except public aircraft) entering or departing the U.S. to or from Cuba. On January 28, 2011, CBP published a final rule in the Federal Register (76 FR 5058) that amended the CBP regulations to establish such procedures and airport eligibility criteria.
Newly approved airports include:
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
- O’Hare International Airport
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
- Southwest Florida International Airport
- George Bush Intercontinental Airport
- Key West International Airport
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- Oakland International Airport
- Orlando International Airport
- Pittsburgh International Airport
- San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
- Tampa International Airport
- Palm Beach International Airport.