Hurricane threat forces CAL, Air Jamaica to cancel flights

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) and Air Jamaica have cancelled several flights to the United States for Sunday because of the threats posed by Hurricane Irene.

CAL announced that it had to cancel two flights to New York on Saturday - BW420 from Piarco and BW421 from JFK to POS.
And its flights from Piarco to Port of spain for Sunday have also been cancelled because JFK and La Guardia airport stopped accepting international flights at midday Saturday. 


Irene hit New York Sunday causing transportation havoc. With all airports closed, a total of 9,000 flights have been cancelled.

CAL has advised customers check its website, www.caribbean-airlines.com, for further information.

For travellers from New York, CAL said the latest information would be available on the website for the NY transportation authority, MTA: www.mta.info/

The cancelled flights for August 28th CAL and Air Jamaica are listed below:

• PoS to New York (POS/JFK)
• BW520
• BW422
• BW524

Georgetown to New York (GEO/JFK)

• BW524 However (GEO/POS) will still operate

New York to PoS (JFK/POS)

• BW525
• BW521
• BW503
• BW523

NY to Georgetown (JFK/GEO)

• BW525

Kingston to New York (KIN/JFK)

• BW015
• BW019

New York to Kingston (JFK/KIN)

• BW016
• BW018

New York to Montego Bay (JFK/MBJ)

• BW010

Philadelphia to Montego Bay (PHL/MBJ)

• BW044