CAL adds evacuation flight as Milton heads to Florida
(CNS): As Hurricane Milton heads towards the west coast of the Florida Peninsular, with landfall expected to begin Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, Cayman Airways has added an evacuation flight this evening, Monday 7 October, to assist the Cayman Islands Government with evacuating Caymanian students studying in Tampa and Cayman residents visiting Tampa who wish to return home before the arrival of the dangerous Category 4 storm.
Flight KX3204 departs Grand Cayman at 5:10pm and arrives at Tampa International Airport at 8pm. Flight KX3205 departs TPA at 9pm and arrives at GCM at 9:50pm.
To purchase tickets for these extra flights, call Cayman Airways Reservations on 345-949-2311, 1-800-422-9626 (toll free in the USA), contact a travel professional, or book online at www.caymanairways.com.
Hurricane Milton developed rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico and grew into a dangerous Category 4 storm on Monday in less than two days. According to the latest update from the US National Hurricane Center, it is currently packing winds of 150 mph and could maintain that strength through landfall. Storm surge and hurricane watches are now in effect for portions of the west coast of the Florida Peninsular, which is still recovering from Hurricane Helene.
See details about the fee waiver on the Cayman Airways website here.
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Helene and Milt will impact hurricane insurance claims, future rates, and risk cover availability, impacting ALL Caymanian property owners and stakeholders, whether we are aware or not. The moment hurricane risk insurance is dropped from the hurricane belt, is the same instant that Cayman’s professionals with home mortgages relocate our central economic pillar elsewhere.
You have no idea how the reinsurance market operates. Not all doom and gloom.
Anybody heard of global warming. Last I heard it was called a hoax.
It is called climate change now. But everything will be fine now carbon tax is in effect. Taylor swift uses her private jet an awful lot, but she pays her carbon tax, so you should write her a thank you note.
So you’re still in denial we see. Shake it off, man, shake it off.
Another example of why we should have our own airline.
Not really, evacuation can be to anywhere in the USA, it is a big country
Of course it can. Evacuations can be to ANYWHERE. However, evacuations FROM Cayman are somewhat restricted if you think any other airline will interrupt their schedule to fly people out of here.
Contracts can be made with air carriers for guaranteed air service during peak season and it would be a whole lot cheaper. You cannot justify the need for a local airline. The airline is a matter of national pride and local employment, nothing wrong that, but don’t try to sell it as a ‘must have’.
So you think. You obviously haven’t experienced hurricane prep in FL! Some people From Tampa were trying to get out of the cone entirely and head to Alabama, no hotel rooms available. They ended up assessing their options and decided that even though Jacksonville fl was in the cone it should be less damage there. Gas, supplies, vacancies all tend to run out in the days before the storm, especially a bad one. Traffic and panic escalates to levels you would never imagine here in Cayman. And in this case, they aren’t even fully recovered from Helene. Think about millions people needing to do the same things over the course of just a few days. Sometimes getting out of country is the best bet.
All airlines are booked.
Roads clogged.
Gas stations out of fuel.
Getting away not as easy as you say…thank you CAL.
Total rubbish, I’m flying today and only booked yesterday. Have friends driving, traffic is heavy but moving. I am not going back to Cayman but somewhere cheaper.
Considering TPA closed 9am EDT this morning (32 minutes after your post if timestamps are to be believed), either you were already there, checked in and waiting for your flight, or you are about to be in for a rude awakening. https://www.facebook.com/FlyTPA/videos/421644024295180/
bad excuse for losing 20-30m each year…..
This is a very unsettling time for Cayman families who have loved ones in Florida. Thanks to CAL for putting on this extra flight for those who need to evacuate. Prayers for Florida.
I feel bad for Floodria
itd Florida, prayers for that place ?
But you criticize those ‘furriners’ that leave Cayman under same circumstances!