#evacuation flights

Afghans with valid visas and passports can take evacuation flights: Taliban

Image Source : AP Afghans with valid visas and passports can take evacuation flights: Taliban Afghans with valid visas and passports stranded in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and waiting to take chartered evacuation flights out of the country will be allowed to leave, a Taliban official at the city’s international airport said Tuesday. Mawlawi Hafiz Mansour said the majority of Afghans…

CAL adds more flights for essential travel

CAL aircraft bound for Miami on 17 April (Photo by Paul Tibbetts)

(CNS): Cayman Airways Limited has added another flight to Kingston, Jamaica, this month and three additional flights to Miami, Florida, in October as part of the COVID-19 repatriation schedule. The national flag carrier said the flight to Kingston will depart on Thursday, 24 September, at 10:00am. Flights to Miami will leave at…

Cayman Airways rolls out new flight schedule

CAL aircraft (Photo by Paul Tibbetts)

(CNS): Cayman Airways Ltd (CAL) has updated its schedule for repatriation flights over the next two months from Grand Cayman to the US, Jamaica and Honduras. During September, while the borders remain closed, the national airline will run just three more flights to Miami and one to Kingston. But in October, after the expected opening of the border, CAL…

Evacuation Flights To End On August 25 – PTF

The Nigerian Government has concluded plans to end evacuation flights following the repatriation of thousands of citizens stranded in various parts of the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. (more…)

CAL flights to La Ceiba, Kingston and Miami

Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) has confirmed the schedule for the following additional repatriation flights for travel from Grand Cayman to La Ceiba, Kingston, and Miami:

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Soft border opening delayed

BA flight from Grand Cayman (file photo)

(CNS): Plans to reopen the Cayman Islands’ borders on 1 September have been postponed until 1 October and possibly beyond, in the face of rising infection rates around the world, especially in the United States. This follows several weeks of speculation that the planned soft opening to visitors was unlikely to happen next month. However, the UK…

Cancelled Jamaica evacuation flights rescheduled

CAL aircraft (Photo by Paul Tibbetts)

(CNS): Cayman Airways confirmed Wednesday evening that the two repatriation flights that should have carried passengers to Jamaica on Wednesday have been rescheduled for Thursday 23 July. CAL’s 737-300 jet aircraft was set to undertake two return flights to Kingston from Grand Cayman this morning but the flights cancelled due to technical trouble.

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More evacuation flights in the works

CAL aircraft bound for Miami on 17 April (Photo by Paul Tibbetts)

(CNS): While Cayman’s borders remain closed until the soft reopening in September, several more repatriation flights are being organised over the next few weeks and returning passengers will still need to quarantine for 14 days. Governor Martyn Roper said some progress had been made on a repatriation flight to Nicaragua but no…