Tag: evacuation flights
Governor urges ‘realism’ on airlift flights
(CNS): Governor Martyn Roper stressed Wednesday that the flights going in and out of the Cayman Islands at present are evacuation airlifts to help people who are stranded with no work or money get home, given the widespread border closures across the world due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Raising concerns that people were seeking to […]
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 […]
Evacuation flight to Manila next weekend
(CNS): The governor’s office is continuing to help organise evacuation flights into and out of the Cayman Islands. But from next Friday, 22 May, any work permit holders returning to Cayman will need to pay for the mandatory 14 days quarantine at one of government’s isolation facilities themselves, though what that cost is has not […]
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 […]
Evacuation flight set for Honduras
(CNS): Governor Martyn Roper revealed that progress has been made on arranging evacuation flights for foreign nationals stuck in Cayman who want to go to their home countries as well as to bring home residents from here stuck overseas. The latest success is a flight to La Ceiba early next week. The governor said his […]
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 […]
Airlift continues with flight to Canada
(CNS): As evacuation flights begin this weekend taking expats stuck here to the United States and Nicaragua, Governor Martyn Roper has confirmed that a flight will be leaving here early next week to airlift people to Canada. However, this is being organised by the Canadian government and will be for Canadian nationals only. Those wishing […]
Evacuation flight starts with Miami
(CNS): The first flights taking expats here to their home countries around the region will begin with two Miami flights on Friday, Governor Martyn Roper said on Wednesday. An inbound flight from Miami, chartered by World Atlantic Airlines, will bring 85 Caymanians and residents home and will return to Miami with a full load of […]
Work continues to facilitate evacuation flights
(CNS): Governor Martyn Roper has confirmed that work on evacuation flights is making good progress and flights to Miami, Canada and Nicaragua will be organised in the first instance to help get expatriates home in the face of the COVID-19 lockdowns. While organising a flight to Jamaica has proved more challenging, he said, work continues […]
