Cuba is the largest and westernmost island in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea. It also bears the distinction of having been “discovered” by Christopher Columbus on his first journey to the New World in 1492.

Skyservice Inc., Canada's largest charter/management company, often dispatches Learjets from its air ambulance division to Cuba for patient-transfer missions. Based in Montreal, Skyservice has 56 managed and company-owned business aircraft in its stable, including five Learjet 35 air ambulances equipped with intensive-care units that routinely operate on a worldwide basis.

While acknowledging his former employer had poor relations with the community initially, Brian Delauter, the TSA's former general aviation manager, says, “The relationship between government and business aviation is now being recast as a business relationship. Now we can go forward on the same page, and going forward we can achieve more. Not working together, we will fail.”