Varadero Airport with optimum performance of its operations.

With a total of thirteen airlines landing on its runways, the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport registers a very good performance of its operations during the current summer season, Liuba Quintero Ávila, head of the Operations Department of this Base Business Unit, assured to Radio 26.

According to Quintero, the figure is really excellent if one takes into account that there are three less airlines than those that flew during the winter season, the period from November to April when the country receives its greatest flow of foreign tourists.

A high percentage of arrivals corresponds to Canada, consistent with its condition as the main market for Varadero, said Quintero, who acknowledged the leading role of the northern airlines Air Canada, Sunwing and Air Transat.

She also mentioned the arrivals from Russia, favored by the resumption of regular direct flights twice a week with Rossiya and a third one to be scheduled for the first week of September.

In the case of planes carrying passengers from that Eurasian country, it meant the total filling of seats, which augurs further growth of the market, the most dynamic in recent years in the Blue Beach, which is now in second place.

The air platform for the Varadero airport is also made up of the German Condor, the English Tui Airways Limited, the Dutch Tui Airlines Nederland, Orbest and World2Fly from Portugal, the Russian Nordwind, and the U.S. carriers World Atlantic and American Airlines.

The Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport is the second most important in Cuba in terms of the volume of operations and passengers it handles, only surpassed by the José Martí International Airport, and it receives or sends off more than 70 percent of the tourists visiting Varadero.

At the end of 2022, more than 2,663 aircraft and 648,476 passengers were handled at the terminal, with an average stay time of 22 minutes, less than half the 45-minute standard established by the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Written by Eva Luna Acosta Armiñán.