Biminite earns 'Captain' at United Airlines

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Regional airline talks 'with Bahamasair' eyed

By ALISON LOWE

Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

A newly-merged Caribbean Airlines and Air Jamaica will seek to form a pan-Caribbean airline conglomerate with Bahamasair and others, an Air Jamaica executive said yesterday, suggesting the move would lead to more "economical" travel for people in the region.

Will Rogers, Air Jamaica's chief of sales, said that he expects the merged compan...

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Bahamas Ministry of Tourism Announces New Airline Service

Nassau, The Bahamas - 
Another boost has been injected in the tourism industry with the addition
of a new airline service to The Bahamas.  The Ministry of Tourism
& Aviation announced that Copa Airlines would begin nonstop air
service from Panama to Nassau commencing on June 15, 2011.  This
is the first time in history that The Bahamas will be able to offer
this type of service...

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Staff cuts on way at airline, Container Port

By ALISON LOWE

Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

Two international companies will be cutting their New Providence and Freeport staff levels in short order, Tribune Business has learned.

From a total of 45 passenger service agents and 19 ramp agents employed in Nassau, American Eagle, a regional affiliate of American Airlines, will reduce these numbers in March by four passenger service ...

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Airline chief says many factors may have led to crash

SKYBAHAMAS CEO and President Captain Randy Butler yesterday said "any number of factors," including "weather phenomena" and "microbursts" could have caused Sunday's fatal plane crash that killed Bahamas Faith Ministries International founder Dr Myles Munroe and eight others.

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Airline Leaders Encourage to Consider Bahahamas for New Route Development Opportunities

As the country continues to enhance its infrastructure in the Aviation sector, the time is ?ripe? for Nassau for new route development opportunities...

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Global airline industry bottom line to improve, despite cost increases

A recent study found that chief financial officers and heads of cargo in the airline industry across the world expect slight increases in profitability by year-end 2017, but say they remain challenged by annual increases in operating costs.
The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Airline Business Confidence Index January 2017 survey showed that profitability for the fourth quarter of ...

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Bahamian airlines soon exempt from FAA overflight fees

Bahamian airlines taking off and landing in The Bahamas will soon be exempt from paying overflight fees to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and The Bahamas could soon be collecting millions in overflight fees for the public coffers when it takes over its own airspace, Prime Minister Perry Christie announced yesterday.
Speaking at a press conference on the matter at the Office of the Prim...

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Airline rep: Only 14 Envoy Air workers to be rehired

The looming redundancies of 48 Envoy Air employees, due to take effect next month, are "a grave injustice", according to the airline workers union president, as the number of post-downsizing vacancies at the airline dwindles.

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