Jamaica, Trinidad aircraft safety queries red herrings – REDjet

Recent comments reportedly made by two cabinet ministers from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago on the safety of aircraft operated by the low-fare airline REDjet has prompted a statement from the airline’s management asserting that its safety was being “unfairly maligned.”

The comments, reportedly made by Jamaica’s Transport Minister Mike Henry and his Trinidadian counterpart Austin ‘Jack’ Warner have been responded to in a release from REDjet, which stated that its two MD-82 aircraft come to the region with good credentials having been previously