Spotlight Capital Holdings Inc (SLCH)

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This market has just recently opened for Cuba travel via the Regional Southwest International Airport and inquiries to the local Cuban-American population has shown a market exists that is suited to our size of operation.

The company's intention is to open a market from the Ft. Meyers/Naples area.

...the company is negotiating with one of their strategic partners to begin this service using their Cuba Authority to quickly open this market.

“We have been approved by the government to have flights between RSW and Cuba under certain restrictions,” says Ms. Moreland. “We have carriers flying in here that could make the application, but we have not been approached by any.”

--Victoria Moreland, public affairs officer for the Lee County Port Authority, which operates Southwest Florida International.

The article I quote was published Sept 22, 2011. No competition at all here at RSW, unlike Airline Brokers inc at Ft Lauderdale Hollywood.

A record number of 400,000 Americans, many of them Cuban-Americans, are expected to travel to Cuba this year, nearly double the number who made the trip in 2008, according to data from the National Statistics Office. Cuba claims more than 2.5 million international tourists visited the island nation in 2010.

http://charlotte.floridaweekly.com/news/2011-09-22/Business_News/Hello_Cuba.html

Local Cubans are hoping that this will soon mean regular commercial flights will operate out of Southwest Florida as well.

“Too many people travel to Cuba from this area. And it’s always a pain to travel to Miami first,” said Irenia Torres, who left Cuba seven years-ago and has lived in Naples for six years.

If Southwest Florida International started operating flights regularly to Cuba, she said she knows people who would fly there monthly.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/jun/27/southwest-florida-international-approved-specializ/

the population of Cuban descent in the area that includes Fort Myers and Naples has risen 237% in the last 10 years

http://www.review.net/section/detail/more-on-fort-myers-cuba-connection/

I did a brief search and found the names of a few companies that fly charter out of RSW, I matched their names up w/ the OFAC list of authorized providers but unfortunately no matches. So I either missed the name of the RSW charter company that has Cuba Autho, or AAVG is working w/ an aviation company that possesses Cuba autho but doesn't currently fly out of RSW.