Caribbean Airlines to add fourth weekly non-stop flight from GT to NY

Guyanese passengers who frequent the Georgetown to New York route will be delighted to learn that Caribbean Airlines (CAL) on Tuesday announced that it will add a fourth weekly non-stop flight to the John F Kennedy (JFK) Airport, New York, beginning May 5.
This announcement comes less than three months after the decision by Delta Airlines to bring its service to an end in Guyana.

Guyana Times International was told that the service will be operated by the company’s 767-300 ER and will also be joined on May 10 by a second weekly non-stop service to Toronto.
CAL Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Robert Corbie in a recent statement said his company has responded “proactively” to the need to fill the void created by Delta’s pull- out from Guyana.
He stated that CAL will continue to demonstrate its commitment to the Guyanese and overseas-based Guyanese who travel frequently. Corbie said Guyana continues to be a very important market for the airline.
It was also explained that with summer approaching, there will be another additional daily flight to the New York route. The statement said CAL operates a core schedule of 85 flights per week from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) to the Caribbean and North America.
On February 14, Delta Airlines confirmed that it would no longer offer its service to Guyana effective May 6 of this year. Delta has been operating direct flights between Georgetown and New York since 2008.
“Delta Airlines will close its station in Georgetown, Guyana, discontinuing flights between the John F Kennedy International Airport and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport effective May 6, 2013, due to poor performance of the route,” Corporate Communications in Latin America and Caribbean, General Manager Sarah Lora had told media.
She explained that while Delta would prefer to continue serving the market, flights between Georgetown and New York’s JFK International Airport had experienced a significant decline in passenger loads and revenues for the past 18 months. This resulted in the company suffering unsustainable losses. Delta’s exit is a blow for airlift into the country following the collapse of EZjet last year, which had also serviced the New York to Georgetown route.