Say A is a holding company based in Cuba.
B is a subsidiary also based in Cuba.
C is a subsidiary based in the Bahamas (open market)
Can C carry passengers on NAS - USA flights (even with a parent Cuban company)?
This would allow A to fly HAV-NAS and B to fly NAS-JFK etc, as long as B & C interline.
I can't see anything in the rules that says this wouldn't be possible, even though it doesn't pass the common sense test.
There is no rule against it and even though technically there is no USA to Cuba traffic I have seen Caribbean (non Cuban) airlines to apparently carry traffic from USA to Cuba.
Well in real life you would just fly to Canada & connect or take one of the few charter flights available. So I don’t see why it couldn’t work.
But in real life USA wouldn't allow a Cuban owned airline operate to/from USA airports - even if it is a subsidiary.
In reality, there are already air traffic between the US and Cuba. Here in AirlineSim flights between the two countries are prohibited, according to flight rights. I think that should be changed immediately.
It is prohibited to operate a SCHEDULED flight between US and Cuba at the moment. As AS does not do charters every flight is considered scheduled…