BA adds two more flights for September
(CNS): British Airways has confirmed two additional flights next month following a request from the tourism minister as a result of the demand, largely from students and their parents. The two additional flights will leave London Heathrow on 1 and 15 September, returning the following days. The ministry said this doubles the number of return flights during September. “With the start of the academic year approaching, the ministry recognises that parents are keen to confirm travel plans to accompany students needing to travel overseas to continue their education,” said Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan.
“These additional flights are primarily for this purpose and I urge the public to please be mindful of this when making travel plans, so that those with a genuine need to travel are able to secure a booking,” he added.
British Airways has confirmed that seats on these flights are now on sale via their website.
While the Cayman Islands continues with the phased border reopening, inbound travellers are reminded to visit Travel Cayman and complete the online form prior to their arrival on Island.
Questions or concerns pertaining to inbound travel should be directed to Travel Cayman by
emailing travelcayman@gov.ky or calling 743 8463
between the hours of 8:30am and 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.Follow government information channels for approved repatriation flight information.
Details of the British Airways repatriation schedule can be found at here.
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When oh when is cayman opening it’s borders for tourism from the U.K. without quarantine restrictions if travellers have been double vaccinated? We are desperate to return fir that well deserved vacation. We have been landlocked long enough!
Stay home stop spreading Covid please !
From September 9 – with 5 days quarantine on your return to cayman from the uk. From October 14 – no quarantine. I also can’t wait to get off this Little Rock and take a holiday in he UK and Europe.. been far too long locked down here in cayman and desperately need a break.
2 + 2 = 4
Would be nice if ONE Canadian flight could come in once a week! Not everyone can afford charter flights.
Yes, yes and yes! I haven’t seen mom and dad in two years. On the mythical waitlist for Cayman Airways flights.
You know, it is kind of cruel for CIG to restrict Cayman Airways from putting on flights to meet demand. There are a couple Facebook groups arranging private flights, but a lot of these have fallen through.
I’m fully vaxxed and willing to do the easy 5 to 6 days quarantine on return. But it is impossible to get an outgoing and incoming flight. Just need to get to Miami and can find my way home 😒.
Please, please allow CAL to put on more flights.
To be honest, covid seems to be used as a form of dictatorship. Once a reason can be backed by some covid factor, the government can force any policy. The rich can fly on private jets, quarantine at a $2k per night villa, and bypass a permit by working remotely. While tourism is dead real estate is making a killing from our little bubble.
This opening is a joke. If the government was confident it would already be adding flights from September to January.
Not just the rich tha fly on private flights, apparently. Seems that even the former deputy Premier is using private jets these days. No doubt on essential business.
Guess the two extra flights are consolation prize for “almost” getting to 80%.
Just open up. We have a very high vaccination rate, and I’m sure of the government did the modeling a worst case scenario for the unvaccinated when we open would not have ICU bed needs and deaths exceeding the hospital capacity in cayman. The only question for any country is can the healthcare system handle demand – let’s publish that analysis based on unvaccinated population and % likelihood of death when we get community spread, and if it’s manageable open up. That’s what any other normal developed country did months ago. It’s ridiculous to not let vaccinated residents travel freely and quarantine for 5 days on return yet. Covid and this pandemic is not going anywhere for many many years so let’s get on with it and allow people to live their lives.
Open up. Travel for vaccinated residents, expats, visitors with NO quarantine period. Enough is enough. Those who wanted the vaccine, got it by now.
@ 1:11pm
I bet you think you have figured it all out.
Yes, just walk of the plane no quarantine!
Yes, Covid in the community will be manageable!
Everyone coming to these shores will have to quarantine…We will meticulously maneuver our way through this to avoid Covid community spread and not listen to FOOLS like you.
Wanna come to Cayman be prepared to QUARANTINE!
But, you think it’s fine to travel to Walmart w/ out quarantine. If we accept you, you should be willing to accept us.
That’s the best you can come up with?
I am 1.11. My original post referred to quarantine. What on earth are you taking about? Most nonsense post I’ve read in 5 years on here. Typical of the anti vaccine pro taxi cartel
So what is the relevance of the Sept 9th third phase when there are no available flights?
Total silence by PACT and Panton.
Can TravelCayman look up what “repatriation” means? It doesn’t say anything about shopping trips or vacations.
It has been almost 18 months of restricted fights. People dont need a reason to want to travel from a small island.
2 to 3 completely sold out (with long wait lists) weekly flights to MIA is ridiculous.
I bet a lot of seats on the Miami flights are being taken by civil servants going for medical treatment with a couple of extra days for shopping,, all expenses paid for by Govt. of course.
Don’t be hating that you weren’t smart enough to secure a position in government.
Yea but some of us have a moral compass.
What about flights from Jamaica. Immigration is granting work permits and we can’t get on island.
lmao
No more permits should be granted to anyone from JA for the forseeable future. Far too many here already.
Agree, should also apply to Philippines, India, Canada, Honduras, Dominican Republic, UK, USA, South Africa, and while you at it, throw in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua for good measure….
Cayman is not going to open, it’s so weird. All those places that drive on the left seem to be afflicted with governments that are hell-bent on driving the middle class into the ground.
It is just my observation. Nothing more.
Perhaps others who actually have family and connections in said areas can comment as to their experience?
I have since relocated to an area where we drive on the right and the paranoia has magically vanished. I am at a loss to explain this.
I suppose Canada is the exception?
Say you are Republican, without saying you are Republican.
Covid 19 coming
More repatriation/holidays coming cuz we all know that’s all it is
It’s inevitable it’s coming … COVID will be here forever, it’s never going away, so get vaccinated to help your chances when we open in October and we get community spread.
Covid already there. Over 600 cases + 2 deaths
2,700US each too 😆
Why do we keep adding BA flights. There can’t be that many Caymanians going back and forth to London. BA was never this full and active for their regular schedule.
Kenneth, if you want to do something to help Caymanians,add more flights to Miami. Many parents have had to resort to going via Jamaica to get to Miami to get kids to school. Cayman Airways keeps saying they would operate more flights but it is the government that refuses to put on anymore.
It is ridiculous that when “essential” flights are actually needed we are putting on more London flights for business people and for UK permanent residents and work permit holders people to come back from their summer holidays..
A simple solution to the Miami problem would be to do two round trips to Miami on Saturday and Sundays so that people can get to go to take their children to school. It is very narrow minded to think that everyone can go on one or two assigned flights and FFS why can’t you give more than two weeks notice when announcing these flights. Most people cannot just jump up like that and go.
You all just want to go to Walmart and do a little partying.
So what? Its been 18 months.
You want to go to Walmart, others want to go to 7MB. So what? It’s been 18 months. It shouldn’t matter if you or a tourist is coming or going.
Or a problem for our politicians apparently – just charter a private jet for your “essential business “. What exactly was that urgent business Moses, and who paid for the plane?
I think the Kirkconnell’s have long had more than enough to charter a private jet. I just surprised they don’t own one or two.
There are many Caymanians studying in the UK at Universities. The perception of almost all Caymanians going to college in the USA is one that no longer has truth to it. For about twenty years Caymanians have had the right to UK passport and to “home” student fees at UK universities. Over that time more and more have chosen the UK to study, first as they can get first rate education for a much lower cost than the US, then they can work during and after university as they are citizens of the UK.
The articles itself refers to returning students, so for that, perhaps also valuable to note that UK universities do not start back until late September or early October, hence these flights
Actually, Caymanians are not necessarily British. They would have been. Mac and his status grants screwed that one up. Thousands of Caymanians are ineligible for British passports. Many are not even eligible for Cayman passports. Those are facts brought about by gross mismanagement of our immigration processes by politicians who wielded power unfettered by the usual concepts of law and order. As usual, no accountability. Just an enormous mess that no one is willing to acknowledge, let alone clean up.
Why would yo send your kids to the US for an education?
Some of the best colleges are in the US.
Some may not like to admit that.
Yeah 5:24, but certainly not in Florida. Florida universities are an academic joke.
Totally agree with you. Would never suggest you attend school in Florida. There’s more to the US than just Florida.
We should have a full schedule so uk cayman residents can get off this rock for a month and go to Europe to see family and take a holiday. We are double jabbed – disgraceful that we are being kept locked in cayman and can’t leave. Open a full ba schedule at fair prices now. Some economy return seats on these flights are costing as much as 4,000 usd when they were never above 1500 historically.
Different times, get used to it
Or go work in another offshore centre that allows travel. Not a threat or a whine – just what’s likely to happen. Getting staff for the financial services industry when they understand the travel restrictions getting harder and harder, let alone keeping the ones we have now. We compete for global talent on income and lifestyle – and other jurisdictions can match the first.
It’s BA which decides the schedule and sets prices, not CIG! They are busy re-couping some of the money they lost in the pandemic flying to places which will let people in without quarantine and applying for permission to take a massively overpriced flight. Routes like Seychelles have been axed, Cayman may well follow suit if tourism doesn’t pick back up.
We should have a full schedule so US residents can get out of the cold and visit Cayman see family and friends and take a holiday. We are double jabbed- disgraceful that we are being locked out…..open with a full schedule with fair prices……..
There are far more students going to the UK than the US, this year and last year.
Please read before engaging..2 “additional flights” are being added.
Full schedule after 9th September right Kenneth?
Right…?
Pastor Alfredo
Holiday time!
2 flights?????
Is that it?
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Additional
Wow. 4 flights in September after announcing a return to regular BA flights would happen in September! So we have weekly instead of every other week. Hardly a reopening! Hardly enough flights to get enough planned new work permit holders in for our Oct reopening!!!!!
What new work permit holders? You have had 18 months to identify and train locals for any tourism positions.
Few of these positions have Acting Chief Officer, Deputy Acting Chief Officer, Chief Officer, Assistant Acting Deputy Chief Officer or CEO in front of them, therefore, only expats will take them.
What makes you think that if the industry has t identified and trained Caymanians in the last 3 decades to do the work that 18 months would make a difference? And now you can force an expat to be vaccinated but not a Caymanian. So…..
Locals do not want to work in tourism.
2 additional flights?
Is that it?
4 altogether