Tweet
I remember when the talking heads on here were saying CAL shouldn't get designation status
US says no to new Caribbean Airlines routes
Dismisses CAL’s application to serve Barbados and St Lucia from NY; allowed service to Jamaica and Grenada
Monday, February 14, 2011
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has turned down an application from the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to fly passengers, cargo and mail between Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia and New York as well as scheduled services between Barbados and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Director of the Office of International Aviation in the US Paul L Gretch handed down the decision on Friday.
Caribbean Airlines jet (Photo: CAL)
Caribbean Airlines jet (Photo: CAL)
#slideshowtoggler, #slideshowtoggler a, #slideshowtoggler img {filter:none !important;zoom:normal !important}
1/1
He also advised CAL that permission had been granted to operate services between the US and Jamaica and New York and Grenada.
In September 2010, CAL having assumed responsibility for Air Jamaica applied for an exemption to undertake various flights previously serviced by the Jamaican carrier.
“We have decided to grant CAL’s request, for a one-year term, to provide scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail from points behind Jamaica, via Jamaica and intermediate points, to a point or points in the United States and beyond,” the US DOT said.
“Charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between any point or points in the United States and any foreign point or points, provided that, except with respect to cargo charters, such service constitutes part of a continuous operation, with or without a change of aircraft, that includes services to Jamaica for the purpose of carrying local traffic between Jamaica and the United States, and scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Grenada and New York,” were also approved.
But the news for Barbados and St Lucia was not so good.
“With respect to CAL’s request to serve Barbados and St Lucia, we cannot make the public interest findings necessary to grant this extra-bilateral authority,” Gretch said.
“Air Jamaica is not currently servicing either point, and CAL has not demonstrated that there is an immediate public need for these services in the circumstances presented. We will thus dismiss its request to serve these points from the United Sates.
Aviation officials said that CAL was not a designated Barbados or St Lucia carrier and this significantly weakened its case. They also said that the only way it was likely to get the Americans to reconsider was for CAL to apply to Barbados and St Lucia authorities for such designation
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1DyNRGBVv
US says no to new Caribbean Airlines routes
Dismisses CAL’s application to serve Barbados and St Lucia from NY; allowed service to Jamaica and Grenada
Monday, February 14, 2011
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has turned down an application from the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to fly passengers, cargo and mail between Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia and New York as well as scheduled services between Barbados and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Director of the Office of International Aviation in the US Paul L Gretch handed down the decision on Friday.
Caribbean Airlines jet (Photo: CAL)
Caribbean Airlines jet (Photo: CAL)#slideshowtoggler, #slideshowtoggler a, #slideshowtoggler img {filter:none !important;zoom:normal !important}
1/1 In September 2010, CAL having assumed responsibility for Air Jamaica applied for an exemption to undertake various flights previously serviced by the Jamaican carrier.
“We have decided to grant CAL’s request, for a one-year term, to provide scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail from points behind Jamaica, via Jamaica and intermediate points, to a point or points in the United States and beyond,” the US DOT said.
“Charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between any point or points in the United States and any foreign point or points, provided that, except with respect to cargo charters, such service constitutes part of a continuous operation, with or without a change of aircraft, that includes services to Jamaica for the purpose of carrying local traffic between Jamaica and the United States, and scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between Grenada and New York,” were also approved.
But the news for Barbados and St Lucia was not so good.
“With respect to CAL’s request to serve Barbados and St Lucia, we cannot make the public interest findings necessary to grant this extra-bilateral authority,” Gretch said.
“Air Jamaica is not currently servicing either point, and CAL has not demonstrated that there is an immediate public need for these services in the circumstances presented. We will thus dismiss its request to serve these points from the United Sates.
Aviation officials said that CAL was not a designated Barbados or St Lucia carrier and this significantly weakened its case. They also said that the only way it was likely to get the Americans to reconsider was for CAL to apply to Barbados and St Lucia authorities for such designation
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1DyNRGBVv