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CARIBBEAN AIRLIFT.
NEW SERVICE.
Tooting agent aims to
BA flight gives
St Kitts a kick
charter his own flight
THE ARRIVAL of British Airways’ new weekly A LONDON agent specialising in the Caribbean is said the proposed increases in APD for the
scheduled flight to St Kitts last weekend aiming to charter his own aircraft to provide Caribbean would add to the affordability
highlighted the importance of UK air links to affordable fares to destinations that are not problem and hit destinations that could least
Caribbean economies. serviced with direct flights or sufficient capacity. afford to absorb them.
The country’s politicians believe the flight, Robert Aidat-Sarran chartered a Zoom Aidat-Sarran claimed his agency could provide
which stops in Antigua, will be crucial in helping Airlines aircraft to fly weekly to Trinidad and enough customers to run a viable service on
the local economy recover from the loss of XL’s Guyana from last November, but the plans a 269-seat Boeing 767ER, but he said it was
charter flights when the operator collapsed. collapsed when that airline went bust. difficult finding a suitable airline partner.
Dr Denzil Douglas, prime minister of St Kitts He had about 700 passengers booked on the Tourism in destinations such as St Vincent,
and Nevis, said the flight, plus bookings through Zoom service, and said the islands were losing Dominica and Guyana was developing but was
UK tour operator partners, were vital. out on UK visitors because the connecting flight being held back by a lack of airlift, he said.
“This is a historic moment. The withdrawal of made the price of reaching the destinations on The cheapest indirect flights were more than
XL flights was terrible news for Kittitians. The scheduled flights unaffordable. Connection times £600 with Virgin Atlantic or British Airways, with
arrival of BA means so much to the thousands of can also be more than six hours. some fares up to £1,200, putting them out of
people employed by the tourism sector,” he said. Aidat-Sarran, of the Travel Shop in Tooting, reach for much of the potential market, he added.
Ricky Skerritt, minister for tourism, sports and
culture, said: “The UK market has been stable
but now has the opportunity for growth.”
Marty Lowell, owner and innkeeper of Ottley’s
Plantation Inn, said: “When I found out it was
happening I was blown away. It’s such good
the holiday of a lifetime to
news for the island.”
Richard Tams, BA’s head of sales for the UK
Win
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