REDjet, billed as the Carib-bean‘s first low fare airline, yesterday officially launched its operations here and it plans to stimulate travel within the region with its “war on high air fares”.
REDjet Business Develop-ment Director and co-founder Robbie Burns, during a press briefing at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, said the airline has received the requisite clearances from the authorities at all of its planned route destinations, including Barbados where it is based. He said that the Barbadian authorities gave REDjet the relevant clearances to operate out of the island to and from Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in the form of an Air Operators Certificate on Friday.
Reports out of Trinidad are that Works Minister Austin ‘Jack’ Warner was “in the dark” as regards how the airline was granted approval to
