No exemptions for flights

Washington: The US Transportation Department said yesterday it is denying exemptions for two charter flight companies to deliver cargo to Cuba.

Two US companies had applied to deliver cargo flights to ship small or personal parcels of food, medicine, and hygiene supplies, arguing the deliveries were humanitarian in nature. The Transportation Department said the State Department determined that the flights did not fall within exemption guidelines.

The Trump administration, effective October 13, suspended authority of US and foreign carriers to provide charter flights between the United States and Cuba.