New routes to Florida, Mexico added at Detroit Metro Airport

Two airlines have added new routes for flights from Detroit, officials said this week. Spirit Airlines announced it will offer daily nonstop flights from Detroit to Jacksonville, Florida, starting Dec. 20. Only Delta Air Lines currently offers nonstop flights from Detroit Metro to Jacksonville International Airport, according to Detroit Metro Airport officials. The Miramar, Florida-based […]

American Airlines Is Adding Another Daily Flight to Saint Lucia

The Pitons, the rum, the drive-in volcano, the three-walled rooms at Ladera. There’s a reason Saint Lucia has always been one of the Caribbean’s most romantic, sought-after destinations. And now it’s getting even easier to get there. American Airlines has announced plans to add another daily flight to Saint Lucia from Miami, with the new […]

Delta Is Launching New Caribbean Flights From New York

Delta Air Lines is planning a broad Caribbean expansion out of New York, Caribbean Journal has learned. That includes three new routes and an additional daily flight to the region. Delta’s new routes include daily nonstop flights between JFK and Kingston, Jamaica, along with new weekly Saturday service to both Antigua and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The […]

Cerda calls on Caribbean to address excessive aviation taxes

Excessive taxes across the Caribbean aviation industry are counter-productive, according to Peter Cerda, International Air Transport Association (IATA) Regional Vice President, The Americas. «While there is no denying the budgetary challenges facing many governments in the region, imposing heavy fees and taxes on aviation and air travel negatively affects levels of tourism and business travel—the […]

IATA Urges To Enhance Caribbean Aviation

The association called on governments and other aviation stakeholders in the Caribbean region to work together to maximize the benefits of connectivity The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on governments and other aviation stakeholders in the Caribbean region to work together to maximize the benefits of aviation connectivity. «Aviation is essential to support tourism […]

IATA Seeks to Maximize Aviation’s Benefits in the Caribbean

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on governments and other aviation stakeholders in the Caribbean region to work together to maximize the benefits of aviation connectivity. «Aviation is essential to supporting tourism in the Caribbean region, transporting approximately 50 percent of all tourists who travel here. It also provides a vital lifeline when disaster […]

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." […]