If you are over the age of forty it is probable that you will remember when intra-Caribbean air services were frequent, costs were low, and travel taxes and security were almost non-existent. So much so that intra-regional travel provided a sense of being embraced by the Caribbean, as workers, officials, students, sports stars, people going on vacation or visiting friends or family, and even higglers filled the Caribbean owned air services that daily flew routes across the Caribbean.
Then, on the whole, inter-island transport worked, movement was affordable and underwrote in an economic, practical and even cultural way, a sense of regional integration. It justified and confirmed that the Caribbean was a single entity.
Today, in comparison, the experience is quite shocking. Travel around the region
