BRENT PIN­HEIRO

brent.pin­heiro@guardian.co.tt

Lo­cal car­ri­er Caribbean Air­lines is set to re­sume fly­ing to the Venezue­lan cap­i­tal of Cara­cas. Come May 13th, the air­line will be­gin sched­uled flights to Cara­cas’ Si­mon Bo­li­var In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (CCS) op­er­at­ing on a once week­ly ba­sis.

The air­line says fre­quen­cy is ex­pect­ed to be in­creased lat­er on.

BW300 de­parts POS on Sat­ur­days at 8:00 am for the 1 hour 55 minute jour­ney to Cara­cas, ar­riv­ing at 9:55 am. The re­turn flight, BW301, de­parts at 10:45 am ar­riv­ing in POS at 12:35 pm.

Com­ment­ing on the move, CAL CEO Garvin Med­era says the air­line is poised for growth as it con­tin­ues to con­nect the Caribbean re­gion. “We are de­light­ed to re­sume flights to Cara­cas and to pro­vide re­li­able and con­ve­nient trav­el op­tions for our val­ued cus­tomers” says Med­era.

CAL first be­gan ser­vic­ing the Trinidad-Venezuela route back in 2008 us­ing Bom­bardier Dash 8s but sus­pend­ed ser­vice. This re­launch will see CAL utilise its fleet of ATR 72-600s which of­fers 68-72 seats de­pend­ing on the con­fig­u­ra­tion. 

Caribbean Air­lines is the sec­ond air­line to link T&T to Venezuela with di­rect flights. Ear­li­er this month, Ru­ta­ca Air­lines be­gan op­er­at­ing char­ter flights be­tween Port of Spain and Mar­gari­ta.