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Seaplane service mooted for Trinidad & Tobago
05.04.2022 - 16:59 UTCA call has been made for a seaplane service for business travellers to augment an existing air bridge operated by Caribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) between the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
It comes from the Tobago Business Chamber after Caribbean Airlines on April 2 increased its inter-island service to 24 daily flights to meet travel demand.
Chamber of Commerce Chairman Martin George said that while the organisation was grateful for the increase in the number of airbridge flights, a seaplane service was also needed to facilitate doing inter-island business, reported News Day.
“We need to explore the idea of a seaplane service between Scarborough [on Tobago] and Port of Spain [the capital on Trinidad] for business travellers,” he said.
“It is ludicrous that you have to basically take a whole day for any business that any Tobagonian has to conduct in Port of Spain, if you have to go down to Crown Point, to the ANR Robinson International Airport (Tobago), get a flight, travel into Port of Spain,...
Caribbean Airlines to resume operations to Suriname
20.01.2022 - 17:00 UTCCaribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) has confirmed it will resume flights to Paramaribo Int'l after having been given the go-ahead by the Surinamese government.
"The start date for Suriname will be confirmed early next week," an airline spokesperson confirmed to ch-aviation.
This followed a meeting to resolve outstanding issues between the airline, Suriname’s Ministry of Transport, Communication, and Tourism (TCT), and the Association of Surinamese Travel Agents (ASRA).
“Permission has indeed been granted, but in the meantime, a resolution must be worked on,” Suriname transport minister, Albert Jubithana, was quoted by Barbados-based Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
This followed an earlier ban on the resumption of Caribbean Airlines’ flights to the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country concerning unresolved complaints from travel agents after the airline failed to repatriate passengers from Suriname during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Surinam Airways (PY, Paramaribo Int'l) and Fly All Ways Airlines (8W, Paramaribo Int'l) had repatriated passengers abandoned by Caribbean Airlines.
“The pandemic has affected all airlines, but I have...
Caribbean Airlines takes first B737 MAX 8
22.11.2021 - 16:08 UTCCaribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) took delivery of its first B737-8 on November 17, 2021, and plans to induct it into revenue service in January 2022.
Delivered directly from Everett to Port of Spain, 9Y-CAL (msn 43385) is the first of four B737 MAX 8s the Trinidadian carrier will take on lease from Air Lease Corporation . It also has one aircraft of the type on order from AerCap, the ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows. The airline has commitments for a total of twelve MAX 8s from various undisclosed lessors.
Caribbean Airlines currently operates seven ATR72-600s and eight B737-800s (one of them being stored since March 2020). It has been gradually downsizing its B737NG fleet and retired four -800s during the course of 2021, the ch-aviation fleets ownership module shows.
Bulgaria's Fly2Sky adds two A321s
28.10.2021 - 18:15 UTCFly2Sky (VAW, Sofia) has expanded its fleet with the addition of two 2001-build A321-200s, its largest type yet.
The Bulgarian ACMI/charter specialist has already registered LZ-MDL (msn 1503) in the country. The aircraft is owned by GECAS and was originally delivered to Air Jamaica. Later, it was operated by AtlasGlobal through November 2019, when the Turkish airline suspended all scheduled operations amidst a liquidity crisis. The Airbus narrowbody has been stored at Montpellier since then and remains there, for the time being, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows.
The second A321 will be OE-ILB (msn 1451), also owned by GECAS and formerly operated by Volare Airlines, Cyprus Turkish Airlines, Aigle Azur, and AtlasGlobal. It, too, has been in storage at Montpelier airport since November 13, 2019. It will be re-registered as LZ-MDF in Bulgaria.
Fly2Sky said the aircraft would be available to the ACMI/charter market in a flexible cabin configuration, both with a passenger cabin and with seats removed for cargo-only operations.
The Bulgarian airline...