05.04.2022 - 16:59 UTC
A 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,...
20.01.2022 - 17:00 UTC
Caribbean 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...
28.10.2021 - 18:15 UTC
Fly2Sky (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...
