Heads-up: non-stop flights from Los Angeles Airport (LAX) to Havana opened today. Tickets are available through Cuba Travel Services Inc. for a healthy $889 per adult, plus tax. These flights were available briefly between 2000 and 2004, but were suspended indefinitely when the Bush administration tightened regulations on travel to Cuba that year. “You’ve waited long enough,” reads the banner on the Cuba Travel Services website.

More than 40,000 Cuban Americans are estimated to live in the greater Los Angeles area, including yours truly. This flight will draw more than just those, however, since it is the only one of its kind departing from the West.

The first flight leaves in about one hour (there’s still time!).

More details here.