Dominica open to REDjet

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica is the latest Caribbean country that has publicly indicated a willingness to provide a licence to the region’s first low cost airline, REDjet, to operate a service into the island.



Tourism Minister Ian Douglas said that the island would welcome every opportunity to increase air transportation.



Douglas said if the Barbados-based REDjet wanted to forge a relationship with Dominica “we will really go for it…to ensure we get more persons into the destination”.



REDjet, which began operations four months ago with direct flights between Guyana and Bridgetown, has now expanded to include Trinidad and Tobago, and will soon launch its service to Jamaica.



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



The operations of REDjet had been a major talking point during the recently held Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in St. Kitts where the issue of safety had been raised by Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to the annoyance of the Barbados delegation.



REDjet has since welcomed the end to the impasse and has also announced plans to expand its services to the Dominican Republic.