{"id":60910,"date":"2018-04-24T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-intercaribbean-cancels-st-thomas-and-st-croix-planned-operations\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T21:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T01:30:02","slug":"intercaribbean-cancela-las-operaciones-planeadas-en-st-thomas-y-st-croix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/intercaribbean-cancela-las-operaciones-planeadas-en-st-thomas-y-st-croix\/","title":{"rendered":"interCaribbean cancels St Thomas and St Croix planned operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>PROVIDENCIALES, Turks &amp; Caicos, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 24, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0interCaribbean Airways with a heavy heart must advise the <span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span> traveling public that services to St Thomas and to St Croix are canceled.\u00a0 We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this causes those customers with planned travel arrangements on these flights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>interCaribbean has been working for some months to have the USVI filings process completed, for which it is not possible to manage simultaneously with the setup of all other operations in parallel.\u00a0 Such has been the process, that other requirements to setup at the airports are unable to be advanced without this completed.<\/p>\n<p>interCaribbean over a month ago deployed an additional aircraft to Tortola in readiness for these flights but given the unusually lengthy processes to get to a starting point, it has become clear that the approval process and our priorities are not aligned.\u00a0\u00a0interCaribbean will now redeploy the aircraft into other operations and growth opportunities.\u00a0 We operate in 13 countries and have not faced the prolonged or protracted challenges of setting up an operation timely in any country.\u00a0 We wish to acknowledge we have seen the full cooperation from the CPB (Customs and Border Protection)\u00a0and the TSA (Transport Security Administration) Agencies in receiving their early and timely approvals for both St Thomas and St Croix.<\/p>\n<p>A key element at any new city served is selecting a partner handling company. In the case of the USVI, we are confronted with handling costs that are three to four times the norm across our entire network of cities.\u00a0 We simply will not pay such outrageous prices.\u00a0 We cannot expect to have to double our everyday affordable low airfares to compensate, for we will not see support from the traveling public.<\/p>\n<p>Given the work necessary to make these cities a viable destination with airfares for which we have become known, we have elected to postpone until the winter season of this year 2018 and give time and opportunity to consider other options to create effective partner handling, and for all authorities to take all the time needed.\u00a0 Should we find a satisfactory point.\u00a0 We will update the traveling public as we move forward and keep you appraised.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/intercaribbean.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">interCaribbean.com<\/a> to learn more about the company and its operations.<\/p>\n<p><b>About interCaribbean<\/b><\/p>\n<p>interCaribbean operates EMB 120, Twin Otter and shortly ERJ145 aircraft connecting the <span class=\"xn-location\">Turks &amp; Caicos Islands<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Antigua<\/span>, the <span class=\"xn-location\">British Virgin Islands<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, the <span class=\"xn-location\">Dominican Republic<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Cuba<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Haiti<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Jamaica<\/span>, the <span class=\"xn-location\">Bahamas<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Dominica<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">St Lucia<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">St. Maarten<\/span> and shortly new services to <span class=\"xn-location\">Aruba<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Curacao<\/span>. Domestic flights are operated in the <span class=\"xn-location\">Turks &amp; Caicos Islands<\/span>, as well as in <span class=\"xn-location\">Jamaica<\/span> between <span class=\"xn-location\">Kingston<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Montego Bay<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  interCaribbean Airways<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>PROVIDENCIALES, Turks &amp; Caicos, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 24, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0interCaribbean Airways with a heavy heart must advise the <span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span> traveling public that services to St Thomas and to St Croix are canceled.\u00a0 We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this causes those customers with planned travel arrangements on these flights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>interCaribbean has been working for some months to have the USVI filings process completed, for which it is not possible to manage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viajes-y-turismo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}