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Condor to Resume Flights to Grenada

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This Hotel on One of the Caribbean’s Most Iconic Beaches Costs Less Than $200 a Night (And It Has Bungalows)

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It’s the most famous view in Martinique: a sweeping volcanic-sand beach fringed by coconut palms, and rising from the sea just offshore, the sheer volcanic silhouette of Diamond Rock. And right now, you can wake up on that beach for $177 per night. That’s the current starting rate at Diamant Les Bains, the beachfront residence hotel […]

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Air Canada Rouge Adding Caribbean Flights From Toronto, Montreal

Above: an Air Canada Rouge plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Air Canada’s leisure carrier, Air Canada Rouge, is adding several new Caribbean destinations out of Montreal and Toronto, it announced Monday. The new destinations include Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti and Cancun. The move is a shift for the destinations from […]

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Seaborne Airlines Makes First Flights to St Kitts, Nevis

Above: St Kitts’ Robert L Bradshaw International Airport By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico-based Seaborne Airlines made its first-ever flight to St Kitts on Wednesday. The flight, which departed from San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, continued after St Kitts to land at Nevis’ Vance Amory International Airport. Seaborne, which announced its move […]

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New Air Service From Kingston to Santo Domingo, San Juan

Above: an InterCaribbean Airways plane By the Caribbean Journal staff InterCaribbean Airways is launching new service from Kingston to Santo Domingo and from Kingston to San Juan, the company announced. InterCaribbean, which recently changed its name from Air Turks & Caicos, will be operating three weekly flights between Kingston and Santo Domingo, with a fourth […]

Seaborne Airlines Makes First Flights to St Kitts, Nevis

 Above: a Haiti Aviation plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Startup air carrier Haiti Aviation has suspended its flights “until further notice,” the company said in a statement on Friday. The North Miami-based company said it had had to deal with “major financial constraints” from the outset, and that, without “tangible solutions immediately effective support” […]

JetBlue Expanding Barbados Service

 Above: a JetBlue plane By the Caribbean Journal staff JetBlue is expanding its service to Barbados, the New York City-based carrier announced Wednesday. The company will be serving the New York-Bridgetown flight with an Airbus A321, meaning an additional 580 seats per week each way. “The people of Barbados and those who love to visit […]

LIAT Flights Disrupted As Pilots Strike

Above: a LIAT plane By the Caribbean Journal staff A strike by LIAT pilots led to the cancellation of at least nine LIAT routes on Tuesday, the company said. Later on Tuesday, the company said it had held discussions with the pilots’ LIALPA trade union after the industrial action, which left only a few flights […]

American Adding New Flights to St Kitts

 Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff American Airlines will be adding two new flights from Miami to St Kitts, according to the St Kitts Tourism Authority. The air carrier will also be changing the schedule for its nonstop flights from New York to St Kitts beginning Nov. 21. The two new […]

Air Canada Adding Grenada Flights

Above: Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff Air Canada will be adding flights from Toronto to Grenada, according to the country’s government. The announcement by Grenada’s government came following talks last week between Grenada and Air Canada officials. It seems for now that the service will be operated by Air Canada’s new Air Canada Rouge […]

Barbados Considers APD Vouchers

 Above: Barbados By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados is considering offering a credit voucher against the cost of the British Air Passenger Duty, according to Tourism Minister Richard Sealy. The credit voucher would apply to British tourists who book a stay of at least two weeks, according to Sealy. The plan to introduce the voucher […]

Barbados: AA Will Not Pull Flights "Without Discussing It With Us"

 Above: an American Airlines flight By the Caribbean Journal staff American Airlines officials have pledged not to end their 38-year relationship with Barbados despite the company’s merger talks with US Airways, according to Barbados Tourism Minister Richard Sealy. Sealy said in a government release that AA’s recent decision to replace the 757 aircraft with a […]

UNWTO's Vogeler: British APD "Needs to Be Addressed"

Above: a British Airways flight By Alexander Britell PORT OF SPAIN — The United Kingdom’s Air Passenger Duty, a tax levied on flights originating in the country, “creates an obstacle to job creation and economic growth” in many destinations, including the Caribbean, according to Carlos Vogeler, the regional director for the Americas at the UN’s […]