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CAA recommends Fly Jamaica to Cabinet
Jamaica-based Fly Jamaica may soon be getting the go ahead to render air services to Guyana. Officials at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said yesterday that the department has made recommendations to Cabinet to approve the Jamaica-based airline’s application to serve the Guyana route.
With the pull out Delta Airlines which made its final flight out of Guyana yesterday bringing in about 70 and taking out more than 150 passengers, the newly commissioned airline will surely be needed, aviation officials said.Made in the past week, the recommendation has also come as Government officials scramble to lure international carriers like Jet Blue and Air Canada to Guyana.
Officials had also eyed Caribbean Airlines which will likely dominate the Georgetown-New York route for a while and is likely to increase fares especially for the upcoming summer peak season.Fly Jamaica had from early last year declared its intention to service Guyana. Fly Jamaica, that island’s newest carrier, is partially owned by Guyanese national, Ronald Reece, and Jamaican investors. Reece also owns Ogle-based Wings Aviation.
He had expressed delight, as a man of the soil, to be rendering services here but had also expressed deep frustration at the royal run around he has experienced at the hands of authorities and the Civil Aviation Department in Guyana.It is unclear if Cabinet will discuss the issue at this week’s sitting but the sources say that the department has recommended that Fly Jamaica’s application be looked at favourably by the Guyana Government.Egbert Fields, who is the Manager of Flight Operations Oversight, Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority expressed delight when local Tourism Minister pronounced that” a few proactive moves in the local airline industry” would be made in dealing with the situation of airlift into and out of the country.Fields emphasized that Fly Jamaica completed a full certification which was issued with an Air Operators Certificate and associated Operations Specifications by the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA).Fields further highlighted that Fly Jamaica was also issued their Operations Specifications by the Federal Aviation Administration (US) and Licence approval by the Department of Transport (US).
The airline operates a 200-passenger Boeing 757 (same type of aircraft operated by Guyana Airways and GA2000), which it owns.Fly Jamaica commenced scheduled operations into New York on February 14, 2013. It is said to be heavily supported by the Jamaican Government and people, while the CEO is Guyanese aviation entrepreneur Captain Ronald Reece.
Fly Jamaica will also have its inaugural flight out of Toronto Canada this summer after attaining full support and authorization from the Canadian Government. The Civil Aviation Authorities said that at the time, Fly Jamaica had not produced certain documentation and on production of such, consideration would have been made for the airline to service Guyana.
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