(Trinidad Express) The way has been paved for Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to fly from Trinidad to India and vice versa, Transport Minister Devant Maharaj said yesterday.
He said a plan has to be formulated and logistics worked out as to acquiring new aircraft and making this initiative a reality.
On Friday after bilateral talks with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Maharaj signed an air services agreement with the Indian Government.
Following the inaugural ceremony of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) at Birla Auditorium, Jaipur, where Persad-Bissessar was the chief guest, Maharaj explained to the Express the details of the agreement. See Page 5.
“It has been ongoing for a number of years and really and truly the signing of this is a significant landmark because Trinidad and Tobago ideally can go to Delhi and they can come to Trinidad.
“It is the opening up of markets in Latin and South America to the East,” Maharaj said.
He said these air links have an impact on the Government’s economic policy.
“These air links are being strategically made to those emerging economies that have been globally recognised as the economies that will be leading in the future, if not presently,” he said.
Maharaj said it was no coincidence that air links have recently been established with Brazil, India and Nigeria- economies which he said were strong and growing.
