Aviation
Money & Movement: Caribbean Airlines pulls back — and the regional map redraws
From June 1, CAL exits Dominica, St Kitts and the Ogle-Suriname run. LIAT and others are moving to fill the gap.
Crossfire: Is Caribbean Airlines' contraction a failure of regional ambition, or the discipline the region's only flag carrier should have had years ago?
Cheryl (BB) and De Statsman (neutral) take the two ends. The reader decides.
Caribbean Airlines published the loss numbers. Dominica, St Kitts, and the Ogle-Suriname route end June 1.
$18.84 million in losses across five expansion routes since 2023. The diaspora question: what gets restored by the codeshare, and what stays gone?
Air access just changed for two retirement-corridor destinations. Recalculate.
Dominica and St Kitts were both in retirement-corridor consideration for diaspora retirees seeking low-cost, lower-traffic Caribbean settings. The CAL route cuts change the access math.
Caribbean Airlines retires its last 737-800
Fleet modernization will reshape which routes are commercially viable. The diaspora connection: this was the workhorse aircraft of the trans-Caribbean network.