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This Bahamas Island Is Just Off the Coast of Florida. And It’s Having a Moment

 bimini island in the bahamas

There aren’t many places in the Caribbean where you can leave Miami after breakfast and be standing on a white-sand beach before lunchtime. Bimini has always occupied a unique place in The Bahamas: close enough for a spontaneous escape, yet far enough away to feel like you’ve crossed into another world. The water is startlingly […]

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WestJet’s Newest Hire

A new EVP By the Caribbean Journal staff Canadian carrier WestJet has named a new executive vice president, the company announced. The company has appointed Harry Taylor to the position of executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer. The appointment takes effect Oct. 26. “I am pleased to welcome Harry to the WestJet team”, […]

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This is the Biggest Question Facing Caribbean Air Transport

What kind of regional air transport system does the Caribbean want? By Kareem Yarde Op-Ed Contributor It was proclaimed that the 2015 restructuring plan of regional carrier LIAT — announced by the major shareholding governments (Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica) — was to keep the carrier from collapsing and to […]

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LIAT Reporting “Strong” Network Performance

Regional carrier showing positive signs By Dana Niland CJ Contributor LIAT has announced “strong” network performance in terms of passenger numbers, revenue, and yield for July 2015, its most profitable month in recent years, according to the company. The airline has reported an average load factor of just under 75 percent for the month of […]

This is the Biggest Question Facing Caribbean Air Transport

 Above: a Bahamasair plane By Dana Niland CJ Contributor After a long period of negotiations, the government of The Bahamas has signed a $100 million contract with aviation firm ATR for the purchase of five ATR 600 model aircraft for the country’s national airline, Bahamasair. Senior government officials, members of the Board of Bahamasair, and […]

InselAir Launching New Service From Aruba to Santo Domingo

 Above: Santo Domingo (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff InselAir is launching new service to the Dominican Republic. The carrier announced Wednesday that it would begin operating two flights per week from Aruba to Santo Domingo beginning July 1. The carrier already operates flights to Santo Domingo out of Curacao. The flights will operate […]

American Airlines Names Two New Vice Presidents

 By the Caribbean Journal staff American Airlines has named a pair of new vice presidents, the carrier announced this week. Captain Kimball Stone has been named vice president, flight, while Lorne Cass has been appointed vice president, integrated operations control. Stone was most recently with the US Army with assignments to the US Special Operations […]

Climate Change and Caribbean Aviation

 By George Nicholson and Rachael Robinson Op-Ed Contributors Climate change currently affects the entire globe. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this global phenomenon “refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.” Moreover, the World Meteorological Centre states that fourteen out […]

The Early Days of Caribbean Aviation

 By Steven Keats CJ Contributor Many people recognize the name of the founder of Pan American Airways, Juan Trippe. But another name, Basel (BL) Rowe is known by very few — yet he is responsible for providing the germinating seed for the Pan American empire and created a surviving history of the genesis of aviation […]

A New Caribbean Airline?

 Above: BlueSky could be the next regional carrier in the Caribbean By the Caribbean Journal staff There’s a new Caribbean airline in development. It’s called BlueSky Airlines, and it’s based in the Cayman Islands. The plan is to fly to destinations across the Caribbean Basin, from Nassau to Cartagena, Colombia. According to a recent statement […]

10 Things You Never Knew About Concorde and the Caribbean

 By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Barbados is the only Caribbean destination (and one of only four countries) to have had regular Concorde service from London. Although the planes were decommissioned in 2003, one of the supersonic British Airways jets has been on display since 2007 at The Concorde Experience, an aviation museum next to […]

New Flights from Nevis to St Barth

 Above: a Tradewind plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Air carrier Tradewind Aviation is launching new nonstop flights between the islands of Nevis and St Barth. The flights, which will launch March 11, will operate weekly on Wednesdays going forward. There will be morning and afternoon flights to facilitate a day trip in both directions, […]