(Trinidad Guardian) The low-cost carrier REDjet has now been given the all clear to operate in territories beyond T&T and the territories it received licences for. This, according to Sandra Welch-Farrell & Company, the public relations and human resources consultant for REDjet. The company stated that REDjet has received licences from the T&T Civil Aviation Authority to operate scheduled passenger air services to and from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to Georgetown, Guyana, and Kingston, Jamaica, as intermediate and points beyond T&T. The licences, it said, have been granted in accordance with the agreement between the governments of Barbados and T&T for air services between and beyond their respective territories.
The company said the Barbados-based airline would announce schedules between Trinidad and Guyana on August 8 and schedules to Jamaica shortly thereafter. But this extensive acquisition would augur well for the low-cost carrier as a number of Caribbean countries continue to express interest in the REDjet. The online article on Caribbean News Digital Web site, “Dominica Winks at REDjet,” yesterday stated that Dominica is the latest Caribbean country to publicly indicate a willingness to provide an operating license REDjet, the region’s first low-cost carrier.
The report said the island’s Tourism Minister Ian Douglas was quoted as saying that the country would welcome every opportunity to increase air transportation, and that if REDjet wanted to forge a relationship with Dominica, “we will really go for it…to ensure we get more persons into the destination.” The report further stated that the Governments of St Kitts-Nevis and Grenada have also said they were interested in the airline providing a service to their respective islands. Dr Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, said: “We have said to them (REDjet), we are ready to receive you here in St Kitts and Nevis. Our people need to be able to have alternatives and competition is important. We believe that it will not only improve on efficiency and reliability of other carriers, but to a large extent impact positively on the fares.”
