Flying within the Caribbean´s gets cheaper

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ministers responsible for civil aviation, transport and tourism on Friday said they had arrived at a formula which, once approved, will make intra-regional travel less complicated and expensive and will attract more international flights to the Caribbean.

They concluded a one-day meeting here Friday ahead of Sunday’s official opening of the 30th annual Caribbean Tourism Conference (CTO) schedule for the Puerto Rico Convention Centre from October 21-24.

"We will be paying attention to a structure in which regional carriers can all collaborate with each other, and given the size and population of the region, make our region more affordable by jointly agreeing to streamline international regulations which do not apply to our area but only make access to international airlift more expensive and complicated," Chastanet said.

He said that the ministers accepted the fact that regional carriers such as Air Jamaica, Caribbean Airlines and LIAT have their place within the region and agreed that issues such as airspace and the civil aviation international transport environment cannot be handed over to foreign carriers.

"We have accepted the position that for social, political and wider economic reasons we need to have our own airlines," the CTO chairman noted, in response to the view that there needed to be one Caribbean airline.

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Source CBC.BB