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From: wb@ulysses.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Commercial aviation overflights
Message-ID: <603@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Sep-83 17:29:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  8 17:29:08 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Sep-83 02:40:13 EDT
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Last March I was returning to NY from a conference in Miami
and most of the Eastern flights out of Miami were delayed
several hours.  The explanation given was that Regan had
shown some pictures of a Cuban missle base (?) on TV during
a news conference the previous evening and the Cubans were not
letting any US flights cross Cuba.  Since many Eastern flights
up north originate in South America, pilots were required
to draw up and file new flight plans which circumvented Cuba.
I don't know whether the Cubans have since relented.