Barbados welcomes IATA Aviation Day Caribbean in two weeks!
IATA, ALTA & The Caribbean Development Bank have joined forces to host an Aviation Day for the Caribbean in Barbados. The goal of the event is to bring together industry experts, senior airline and airport executives, and government authorities to discuss aviation"™s largest opportunities and key challenges across the Caribbean region. IATA"™s global Aviation Days […]
Spirit Airlines becomes first ULCC in the Americas with connectivity
Spirit Airlines, an ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) serving the US, Latin America and the Caribbean, has announced that it will be fitting the Thales FlytLIVE connectivity system across its fleet of A319, A320 and A321 aircraft. Spirit and Thales are partnering to offer Ka-band high-throughput connectivity, with the FlytLIVE service using SES"™ and Hughes Network […]
American Airlines introduces Caribbean and Hawaii routes
American Airlines customers will have new options to escape the cold with more seasonal and year-round flights to the Caribbean and Hawaii starting this winter. An overview of these new flights is as follows: "¢ From ORD: Daily winter seasonal service to HNL and four new routes to the Caribbean: AUA, GCM, NAS, PLS "¢ […]
Copa Airways to expand TT, Caribbean service
Trinidad has been good to Copa Airways over the last decade. The "airline of the Americas," based out of Tocumen Airport, on the outskirts of Panama City started servicing the Trinidad-Panama route ten years ago this past week, and, as the airline"™s vice president for sales Christophe Didier describes it, the relationship has been "win-win." […]
Condor, Eurowings fill Düsseldorf gaps with new Caribbean flights
Condor and Eurowings are launching new flights from Düsseldorf to fill gaps left by Air Berlin"™s cancellation of flights to the Caribbean. The insolvent German airline has cancelled nearly all of its long-haul flights from Düsseldorf and Cologne operated by its fleet of 17 leased A330s from late September. Leasing firm Aer-Cap has demanded the […]
ALTA TRAFFIC REPORT FEBRUARY 2017
"‹"‹ "‹ The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 12 million passengers in February, up 8.2% from the previous year, excluding domestic traffic in Brazil, marking the 66th consecutive month of passenger traffic growth for Latin America and Caribbean airlines. Traffic (RPK) grew 8.4% […]
E-gates go live as Curaçao Airport plans for future growth
New automated border control e-gates are now live at Curaçao International Airport in both the arrivals and departures terminals at the Caribbean airport. The airport is planning to expand its overall capacity from 1.6 million to 2.5 million passengers a year, and partnered with Vision-Box to help speed up and secure the border control process. […]
JetBlue’s Mint service coming to more Caribbean destinations
JetBlue is expanding its Mint premium-cabin service to flights from New York to St. Lucia and St. Maarten as well as from Boston to Aruba, effective Nov. 5 through spring 2017. The flights will operate weekly, but will increase to a daily roundtrip to each destination in peak holiday periods. Customers flying the Mint service, […]
Una nueva forma de volar a Cuba, desde Providenciales, Islas Turcos y Caicos
En este diciembre tiene lugar el lanzamiento de una nueva ruta a la isla de Cuba desde Providenciales (PLS), Islas Turcos y Caicos. Los vuelos a Santiago de Cuba (SCU) comienzan el 10 de diciembre de 2015. Con este nuevo servicio a Santiago desde Providenciales, los visitantes a las Islas Turcos y Caicos podrán disfrutar […]
LATAM Airlines Group to introduce SITA"™s baggage services across 12 airports
LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America"™s largest airline group, is introducing a new baggage system that will give real-time status reports on passenger"™ baggage across 12 airports. The airline handles more than 30 million bags a year and the new technology, provided by global air transport technology specialist SITA, will be instrumental in reducing the number […]
