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Caribbean Airlines are cutting back on flights to Jamaica, this was confirmed by head of communications at the airline Clint Williams.
For several weeks it was rumoured that the airline was reducing flights to Jamaica.
During a sitting of Parliament's Standing Finance Committee, on Tuesday; Transport Minister, Dr Omar Davies, told the committee that no information was forthcoming from Caribbean Airlines.
However, in a radio interview , Williams said that the decision had been made to reduce the flights and this becomes effective on April 16.
He stated that it was made based on the travel patterns observed, and as part of the move for the airline to become more efficient.
Williams said some of the scaling back had already started.
“We have reduced frequencies on a number of routes where we see that there was excess capacity, where loads were not as full,” said Williams.
Caribbean Airlines, which began operations in 2007, acquired Air Jamaica in 2011. The Jamaican Government has a 16 per cent stake in the Trinidadian air carrier.
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