--- title: Prices for Flights to Cuba Could Drop by 50% description: According to Hopper, prices for a Cuba flight will drop dramatically as airlines restore flights. authors: - name: Ethan Wolff-Mann url: https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 160 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/ewolffmann former_staff: true published: '2016-03-21T17:53:44.000Z' modified: '2024-05-07T10:37:15.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Airlines - pubdesk - Travel word_count: 330 canonical: https://money.com/flight-to-cuba-price-drop/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Travelers Check In To Flight To Havana, Cuba From Miami](https://img.money.com/2016/03/gettyimages-460680630.jpg) *A sign shows the departure times for flights to Cuba at Miami International Airport on December 19, 2014 in Miami, Florida.* Ever since the U.S. government [loosened travel restrictions in January 2015](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30836679), people who qualified as journalists, family, or any of the other dozen-odd reasons to go had to jump through some irksome hoops to get there, taking expensive chartered flights or getting to Havana through a third country, even though Cuba is less than 100 miles off Florida's coast. Today it costs, on average, $717 to fly there from the U.S., according to [research from Hopper](http://www.hopper.com/research/end-of-cuba-travel-restrictions-would-cut-airfare-by-50). The first leg to the third-party city (Mexico City, Montreal, Cancún, Toronto) may cost a few hundred dollars, and from there it can be anything from $220 to $420 to the Havana airport. All of this, however, is likely to change significantly when economic relations are restored completely, which is looking likelier and likelier as President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and more U.S. officials traveled to Cuba to meet with President Raúl Castro on Monday. In a press conference on Monday, President Castro said, "We have signed an agreement to resume commercial flights." So expect it to happen sometime soon. With normalized relations, airlines could definitively add Cuban destinations, and niche charter flights would be superseded by standard fares. In fact, many carriers have already applied to operate there, queuing up early in anticipation. If the embargo is in fact lifted, Hopper estimates that the average round trip price from the U.S. would be around $364, and as cheap as $275 from Miami. Should this happen, the demand will likely be huge if search volume is any metric. Since last year, interest has risen 500%, showing [a huge spike on Google Trends](https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=flights%20to%20cuba). The potential affordability of traveling to Cuba gives some sense as to the opportunity cost Cuba paid by not having normalized relations: Passing up on over 50 years of tourism opportunities from a giant country so close must have cost Cuba an astronomical amount of money. And for that reason, Cuba will probably [look very different](http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/what-will-the-new-cuba-look-like) in 10 years when that money returns. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/flight-to-cuba-price-drop/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Travel", "item": "https://money.com/travel/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Prices for Flights to Cuba Could Drop by 50%" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/flight-to-cuba-price-drop/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/flight-to-cuba-price-drop/", "name": "Prices for Flights to Cuba Could Drop by 50%", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-03-21T17:53:44.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/flight-to-cuba-price-drop/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/flight-to-cuba-price-drop/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-07T10:37:15.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Prices for Flights to Cuba Could Drop by 50%", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/03/gettyimages-460680630.jpg", "width": 5184, "height": 3456, "caption": "Travelers Check In To Flight To Havana, Cuba From Miami" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ethan Wolff-Mann", "url": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/ewolffmann" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-03-21T17:53:44.000Z", "description": "According to Hopper, prices for a Cuba flight will drop dramatically as airlines restore flights.", "abstract": "According to Hopper, prices for a Cuba flight will drop dramatically as airlines restore flights.", "@id": "https://money.com/flight-to-cuba-price-drop/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-05-07T10:37:15.000Z", "wordCount": 330, "keywords": [ "Airlines", "pubdesk", "Travel" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Travel", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel" ] } ] } ] } ```