The Cab­i­net is will dis­cuss the pos­si­bil­i­ty of an in­crease in Caribbean Air­lines flights (CAL) be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go soon, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Bri­an Man­ning said yes­ter­day.

Speak­ing in a tele­phone in­ter­view, Man­ning said a de­ci­sion should be made be­fore East­er.

He made the com­ment in re­sponse to calls from To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber pres­i­dent Mar­tin George for Gov­ern­ment to con­sid­er an in­crease in flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge.

“It is still not up to full ca­pac­i­ty… this is now the biggest bug­bear in terms of the ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty to To­ba­go for Trinida­di­ans and their fam­i­lies who wish to come to To­ba­go,” George said in a state­ment over the week­end.

He said there was no good rea­son for lim­it­ed flights be­tween both is­lands, es­pe­cial­ly since Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley on Sat­ur­day an­nounced the full re­open­ing of the econ­o­my from April 4.

“We al­so need to see Caribbean Air­lines step up to the plate and in­crease the num­ber of flights be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go,” he said.

Al­so con­tact­ed on the is­sue yes­ter­day, CAL’s head of Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Dionne Ligoure said the air­line will be guid­ed by the in­struc­tions of the rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers with re­spect to ad­just­ing the op­er­a­tions on the do­mes­tic air­bridge.

Cur­rent­ly, there are 16 flights be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go dai­ly, each with the ca­pac­i­ty for 68 pas­sen­gers. That means 544 peo­ple are able to go and come from To­ba­go by air dai­ly. (Carisa Lee)