The inaugural flight of interCaribbean Airways from Bridgetown, Barbados landed at 2:16 p.m. local time on Saturday the 17th at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Georgetown, Guyana, marking the airline’s landing in South America.
This new connection will expand Guyana’s ties with the Caribbean region, given interCaribbean’s extensive presence in the region.
The airline will operate up to twelve flights per week between Bridgetown and Georgetown with Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft with a capacity of 50 passengers, offering up to 600 seats per week to and from Bridgetown and Georgetown within the same day.
From Barbados, InterCaribbean provides direct connections to Dominica (DOM), Grenada (GND), St. Lucia (SLU), Tortola (EIS) in the British Virgin Islands, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVD).
The company will be competing with Caribbean Airlines’ four weekly flights on ATR 72-600s and Trans Guyana Airways’ two weekly flights on Beechcraft 1900Ds, although both operate out of Ogle International Airport, which is closer to Georgetown’s city center.
interCaribbean was established more than 29 years ago by Lyndon Gardiner, founder and president. It seeks to provide intra-regional travel, acknowledging that there is a shortage of such services, being a pan-Caribbean airline operating from Havana (Cuba) in the west to Barbados in the east, with most of the islands in between. While the COVID-19 pandemic slowed down part of those plans, he hopes that by 2025 they will be up and running in every major city in the Caribbean.
Based on data obtained by Aviacionline through Cirium, interCaribbean will have during December 2021 an offer of 45,825 seats in 1,501 flights, representing an increase of 12.8% and 9.1% respectively versus the same period in 2019, making it the first month since the start of the net growth pandemic.
