BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Transportation throughout the area was boosted on Wednesday with interCaribbean Airways’ inaugural direct flight from Kingston, Jamaica, to Bridgetown, Barbados, touchdown on the Grantley Adams Worldwide Airport.
Based on Minister of International Affairs and International Commerce Kerrie Symmonds, this extra route from interCaribbean is a “fantastic spirit of partnership” that can make connecting with the area extra accessible.
Symmonds and officers from the Barbados Tourism Advertising Inc. (BTMI) and Grantley Adams Worldwide Airport welcomed the flight piloted by Captain Johan Smith, which took 2 hours and 25 minutes from Jamaica to Barbados.
The Minister famous that the timing is superb, with Barbados set to host a number of important occasions this 12 months, together with the United Nations Convention on Commerce and Improvement’s World Provide Chain Convention in Could and the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup in June.
He thanked the Founder and Chairman of interCaribbean Airways, Lyndon Gardiner, for interCaribbean’s function in connecting Barbados to the area.
“For a interval of … three hours, we will now have a direct flight connecting Barbados to Jamaica…. This factor makes fantastic, good sense. Chairman, you will have come to the rescue on the proper time. I feel this nation is eternally indebted to you and the interCaribbean on your sense of partnership, public spiritedness, and cooperation. And at present is a contented day for me [and] I’d say on behalf of Barbados, effectively completed,” Symmonds said.
Appearing CEO on the BTMI, Craig Hinds, identified that the brand new route connects two vibrant Caribbean nations and can strengthen and deepen the bond of friendship and cooperation between the 2 islands.
“Right now marks a momentous event in our partnership with interCaribbean Airways. As we rejoice the inaugural flight between Barbados and Jamaica, this flight represents a brand new chapter in our connectivity and can undoubtedly deliver immense advantages to each islands. As we welcome this new route, we’re stepping right into a chapter full of alternatives for progress in areas equivalent to leisure tourism, tradition and sports activities, enterprise, geography, and financial growth.
This flight will assist us in creating the bridge that brings us nearer to our Caribbean neighbors and for us to comprehend our dream for Barbados to be often called the hub for higher connectivity all through the Caribbean,” Mr. Hinds remarked.
Mr. Gardiner additionally concurred that the brand new direct route would deepen regional relations. He mentioned that the purpose of interCaribbean “has all the time been to advance regional journey,” and thru its operations, it’s bridging greater than locations; additionally it is enabling the mixing of individuals, thereby creating and widening future alternatives and prosperity within the area.
“This direct service will unite households, buddies, companies, and training and help nice alternatives between the islands…. This strengthening hyperlink began at present may have an amazing social and financial impression on the lives of many by facilitating commerce, tourism, funding, and employment alternatives between Barbados, Jamaica, in addition to the opposite southern Caribbean islands we join via this hub right here in Barbados,” Mr. Gardiner mentioned.
He shared that Bridgetown, the Southern Caribbean hub for interCaribbean, will see the CRJ700 Jet plane flying to Kingston 3 times weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with return flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
interCaribbean was launched in 1991 and operates direct flights from Barbados to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
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