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.
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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.
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16.07.2021 - 00:21 UTC
Caribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) will phase in the resumption of scheduled flights with the re-opening of borders in Trinidad and Tobago on July 17, 2021, the airline announced.
Operations between Port of Spain (Trinidad) and the Eastern Caribbean will resume first, alongside the re-start of flights to New York, Miami, and Toronto.
The flight schedule out of Trinidad to the Eastern Caribbean will look as follows:
- Bridgetown, Barbados: 3x weekly (Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays);
- St. Vincent Argyle Int'l, St Vincent and the Grenadines: 2x weekly (Wednesdays and Sundays);
- Grenada: 3x weekly (Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays).
Rotations from Trinidad to the US and Canada will operate as follows:
The carrier on July 17 will also add new additions to its network from Trinidad:
