Cubans react to Fidel Castro’s death

After Castro's death, new flights to Havana launch

U.S. airlines will launch regularly scheduled commercial flights to Havana on Monday, just in time for the start of funeral services for the island's former leader Fidel Castro. The fiery revolutionary turned dictator, who controlled the Communist island for more than five decades and railed against America's capitalist ideals, died Friday at age 90. American Airlines will run a short, one-hour flight from Miami to Havana, the first regularly scheduled commercial route to the Cuban capital. The Cuban government is in the middle of a nine-day mourning period for Castro, which ends with a final Mass and ceremony on Dec. 4. His ashes will be interred in the cemetery of Santa Ifigenia.

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