Fol­low­ing the pas­sage of Hur­ri­cane Beryl, the do­mes­tic fights of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) re­sumed yes­ter­day, with the first flight (BW 3518) de­part­ing Trinidad at 5 pm and ar­rive in To­ba­go at 5:35 pm. The first flight from To­ba­go (BW 3523) was set to leave To­ba­go at 6:15 pm.

The is­land did not op­er­ate any flights be­tween 9pm on Sun­day night and 5pm yes­ter­day "due to the ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions" as a re­sult of the Hur­ri­cane Beryl, ac­cord­ing to news re­leas­es from the na­tion­al air car­ri­er.

In a news re­lease, CAL is­sued the times for 16 flights to To­ba­go be­tween 5pm and 10:15pm. The same num­ber of flights were ex­pect­ed to leave To­ba­go be­tween 6:15 pm and 11:15 pm.

The air­line said pri­or­i­ty would be giv­en to con­firmed and tick­et pas­sen­gers and peo­ple whose flights were can­celled yes­ter­day will al­so be ac­com­mo­dat­ed on those flights. CAL added that stand-by trav­ellers will be ac­com­mo­dat­ed as far as re­sources per­mit.

"Please co­op­er­ate with our air­port team as they man­age the flow of cus­tomers," the air­line added.

Ear­li­er yes­ter­day, Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan did not an­tic­i­pate the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port would re­open.

He said there were in­spec­tions on the ground in To­ba­go to en­sure that the air­port was not af­fect­ed in any way. They were al­so wait­ing for the wind to reg­u­larise be­fore op­er­a­tions were start­ed.

“The air­port will be ready in Trinidad. Our staff both at the air­port and at the port are out. How­ev­er, again, we have to wait for the wind gusts to set­tle,” he said.

Sinanan said the sea con­di­tions were very rough and the cap­tains de­cid­ed that it was not safe to sail any of the ves­sels that tra­verse the seabridge.

He did not an­tic­i­pate that there would be any sail­ings yes­ter­day due to sea con­di­tions. He added that at the in­ter­na­tion­al ter­mi­nal, they have a sim­i­lar chal­lenge be­cause the Pi­lot’s As­so­ci­a­tion has in­di­cat­ed that it was not safe to bring in in­ter­na­tion­al car­go ves­sels at this time.