The Trinidad and Tobago government has indicated that it will acquire nine ATR - Avions de Transport Régional turboprops to improve connectivity between the two islands and regionally. State-owned Caribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain), the only operating scheduled carrier based in the country, already has seven ATR72-600s in its fleet.
During a parliamentary debate for the Appropriation (Financial Year 2023) Bill 2022, on October 3, community development and sports minister Shamfa Cudjoe said: "We are set to order, to arrange, to get nine new ATRs to Trinidad and Tobago to improve the inter-island transportation and I’m pleased to see that happening."
ch-aviation schedules data indicates Caribbean Airlines provides a high-frequency ATR-72 service between Tobago and Port of Spain on Trinidad. It also uses the aircraft type on other intra-Caribbean routes, including between Port of Spain and Bridgetown, Curacao, Dominica Melville Hall, Georgetown Cheddi Jagan, Georgetown Ogle, Grenada, St. Lucia Vigie, and St. Vincent Argyle International. The airline deploys the turboprops on flights from Tobago to Bridgetown and on routes between St Vincent Argyle and Bridgetown and Grenada.
According to the ch-aviation fleets module, of the seven ATR72-600s in the fleet, five are owned outright and two are leased. 9Y-TTF (msn 1133) comes from Nordic Aviation Capital and is with Caribbean Airlines until February 2026, while 9Y-TTI (msn 1318) also comes from Nordic and is contracted to remain in Trinidad and Tobago until April 2028.
