Tag: Cayman Airways
CAL adds more flights for essential travel
(CNS): Cayman Airways Limited has added another flight to Kingston, Jamaica, this month and three additional flights to Miami, Florida, in October as part of the COVID-19 repatriation schedule. The national flag carrier said the flight to Kingston will depart on Thursday, 24 September, at 10:00am. Flights to Miami will leave at 10:00am on 1, […]
Cayman Airways rolls out new flight schedule
(CNS): Cayman Airways Ltd (CAL) has updated its schedule for repatriation flights over the next two months from Grand Cayman to the US, Jamaica and Honduras. During September, while the borders remain closed, the national airline will run just three more flights to Miami and one to Kingston. But in October, after the expected opening […]
Cayman Islands soft border opening delayed
(CNS): Plans to reopen the Cayman Islands’ borders on 1 September have been postponed until 1 October and possibly beyond, in the face of rising infection rates around the world, especially in the United States. This follows several weeks of speculation that the planned soft opening to visitors was unlikely to happen next month. However, […]
Cancelled Jamaica evacuation flights rescheduled
(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.
Max 737s tested as Boeing faces uncertain future
(CNS): With the airline industry in turmoil and the Cayman Islands borders closed until at least September, the grounding of Cayman Airways’ newest planes has faded from the headlines. But the problem has not gone away. The US authorities recently took the Boeing 737 Max planes through a series of test fights but it will […]
CAL takes home just 77 Jamaicans
(CNS): The Honorary Jamaican Consulate has confirmed that 77 Jamaican nationals were on board the Cayman Airways charter flight to Kingston Thursday, the first repatriation flight to the neighbouring island since the lockdown began. Officials confirmed that they have a list of more than 130 people who have registered to leave Cayman on further emergency […]
Airport activity keeps CAL pilots certified
(CNS): Although the Owen Roberts International Airport remains closed to regular air traffic, there was a series of take-offs and landings on Friday morning conducted by the Flight Training Department for Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) in order for some of its pilots to maintain their ‘Pilot Recency of Experience’ certification, which is a regulatory requirement in the Cayman Islands.
Pets can fly on repatriation flights to Miami
(CNS): Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) has said that a limited number of pets will be allowed to travel on three repatriation flights to Miami over the next month. These flights, which will leave Grand Cayman on 29 May, 5 June and 19 June, are for US citizens or those legally able to travel to or […]
Airlift rolls on as hundreds leave
(CNS): Over the last seven weeks since the airports closed in March evacuation flights have continued to take foreign nationals home and almost one thousand people have left the Cayman Islands. On Friday Governor Martyn Roper, who has been overseeing the airlifts, confirmed that 921 people have gone home on these special charters to various […]
Cayman Airways to airlift more people to US
(CNS) UPDATED: Cayman Airways’ has added a second repatriation flight to Miami next Friday, 1 May. The two charters, in partnership with the government, will only be carrying US citizens or those with transit visas from here. Neither flight will bring back passengers as Cayman’s quarantine facilities are full. The flights are aimed at taking […]
Airlift setback as Nicaragua closes borders
(CNS): Two evacuation flights to Nicaragua planned for Saturday been cancelled. They would have flown home almost 160 Nicaraguan nationals who have been stuck in the Cayman Islands since the borders here were closed a month ago. Cayman Airways said it had been informed Friday that the Nicaraguan Government had closed its borders and tomorrow’s […]
