Dominica Winks at REDjet

Dominica Winks at REDjet
 
According to published reports, Dominica is the latest Caribbean country to publicly indicate a willingness to provide an operating license REDjet, the region’s first low-cost carrier.

The island’s Tourism Minister Ian Douglas was quoted as saying that the country would welcome every opportunity to increase air transportation, and that if REDjet wanted to forge a relationship with Dominica “we will really go for it…to ensure we get more persons into the destination.”

REDjet began operations four months ago with direct flights between Guyana and Barbados, where the airline is based. Service has now been expanded to include Trinidad and Tobago, and will soon launch in Jamaica.

The governments of St. Kitts-Nevis and Grenada have also said they were interested in the airline providing a serve to their respective islands.

Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Dr. Denzil Douglas has asserted: “We have said to them (REDjet), we are ready to receive you here in St. Kitts and Nevis. Our people need to be able to have alternatives and competition is important. We believe that it will not only improve on efficiency and reliability of other carriers, but to a large extent impact positively on the fares.”

He revealed that his government had already given the green light for the airline to operate flights to St. Kitts, stating: “We would want to have REDjet operate from Barbados to St. Kitts, from St. Kitts to St. Maarten and then back to Barbados, and then on to Guyana. We believe that is a route that our people would love. That is what we are working on.”

REDjet operational expansion was a major point of discussion during the recently held CARICOM meeting in St. Kitts, where the issue of safety had been raised by Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to the disgruntlement of Barbados.