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American Airlines is Being Sued for “Trafficking” the Havana Airport

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Jan 02 2020

The plaintiff says his father owned the Havana airport when it was taken by the Cuban government during the 1959 revolution. He purchased what was then Rancho Boyeros Airport seven years earlier from Pan Am and made investments to “modernize[.] and improve[.] it by extending the runway and building a new terminal building.”

It was taken during the Cuban Revolution and he’s suing American Airlines (and LATAM) under the Helms-Burton Act.

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