Cancelled Jamaica evacuation flights rescheduled

| 22/07/2020 | 30 Comments
Cayman News Service
CAL aircraft (Photo by Paul Tibbetts)

(CNS): Cayman Airways confirmed Wednesday evening that the two repatriation flights that should have carried passengers to Jamaica on Wednesday have been rescheduled for Thursday 23 July. CAL’s 737-300 jet aircraft was set to undertake two return flights to Kingston from Grand Cayman this morning but the flights cancelled due to technical trouble.

Officials told CNS that the aircraft developed a problem with one of its radio communications systems just before boarding of the first flight.

“Unfortunately, other aircraft were on scheduled maintenance and this situation ultimately resulted in the cancellation of today’s Kingston flights, which have now been re-scheduled for Thursday,” the airline added.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    I7.12am…….Idiot!!! Is it only Cayman that is affected????What the hell do we you all???? NOTHING!! Just GO!

  2. Anon says:

    To all the supporters of CAL, just wait until you see what our national airline will cost us this year – enough I’m sure to build a new High School, a new hospital, a new Mental Health facility and a new Govt Admin Building to house the ever proliferating number of civil servants.

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  3. Anonymous says:

    This is one that we reaaalllyy needs to go…come on CAL 🙂

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    • Anonymous says:

      For sure – they should have been on the ball – with no slip ups – we need hundreds of these flights out of here to ease up our Island.

  4. Anonymous says:

    No tv station. No airline. 5th largest financial place on the world. How boring next year when election time going on.

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  5. Anonymous says:

    Does this mean it’s safe to go back to Fosters Airport now?

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  6. Kim says:

    Anyone who has flown on any airline knows that delays due to weather, technical issues and delayed crew are not uncommon. I think that it’s great the Cayman has its own airline. And I would certainly prefer that any issues involving safety are dealt with on the ground.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Quite often flights are cancelled due to weather when there is clear sky and no wind in the 1000 miles radius at both places- destination and departure. Happened to me. Instead of honestly saying that flight is cancelled due to too few passengers they lie straight to your face.

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  7. Say it like it is says:

    They should never advertise “non stop” flights only “stop” flights.

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  8. Anon says:

    In our bridge flight out in April (to Miami) CAL used another carrier to do the flight. It might not be CAL’s maintenance issue.

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    • Anonymous says:

      No – CALs lease issue through leasing MAXs that cannot be flown but we cannot replace them either because we have managed to lock ourselves into a lease even where the aircraft is unflyable, so have to juggle 32 elderly 737s that were meant to be retired.

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  9. Anonymous says:

    a tragic situation where people have to leave the island because of a failing economy…..and compounded by the bumbling incompetence of the loss making national airline….
    tells you alot about the struggle ahead for cayman

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  10. Anonymous says:

    with an economic depression looming…surely there can be no justification for cig not to sell cal?
    for those worried about the imaginary airlift during national emergencies….this can be made a condition of sale to any potential purchaser

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    • Anonymous says:

      what are you buying? A company with negative cash flow and few assets. The planes are leased. An investor wouldn’t go near it

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      • Anonymous says:

        yes they will….and any sale is better than the the taxpayer bailing it out every day of every year

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  11. Anonymous says:

    cal….a non-stop, loss making embarrassment.
    sell it now

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    • Anonymous says:

      Any loss subsidized by our tax would be spent on providing profit to a private airline to connect our islands.

      Unless you’re implying we go back to building catboats for inter-island travel.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Going back to catboats would be an extreme but do we really need four full time aircraft plus an occasional jet to service the Sister Islands ?

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      • Anonymous says:

        again…airbridge between the islands could be a condition of any sale

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    • Anonymous says:

      Thank god for CAL, are plenty wouldn’t know what this paradise look like

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      • Anonymous says:

        Thank God for CAL is right. Our national airline has been there for us when every other commercial airline left us stranded.just wait and see how many carriers return after the pandemic eases. If any are still flying to Cayman…

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    • Hafoo says:

      You want it to be like Air Jamaica?

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    • Anonymous says:

      Sell? What is the going price for a four plane airline that loses $25M a year? On top of that add leases on new planes that are grounded.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Its more like cutting off a gangrenous leg than selling the family silver. You could contact an airline to provide service cover at agreed price and schedule for a supplement of less than $25m a year. Wouldn’t of course give the staff and MLAs free flights,or require a whole hierarchy of highly paid locals – thats the problem.

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        • Da-wa-u-get says:

          Do I understand that you feel it would be better if CAL had “a hierarchy of highly paid” Expats?

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  12. Anonymous says:

    Truly embarassing. And we want to attract luxury tourism with a national airline that performs as badly as CAL? What a joke.

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  13. Anonymous says:

    Lol! Even when they have allllll the time to keep up Maintenance and be on time…….

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