Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has been fined $20M (US$100,000) by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for a four-hour delay on the tarmac of the JFK Airport in New York last August.
In a statement on Friday, DOT said that CAL – now Guyana’s flag carrier – violated federal rules by not providing passengers with an opportunity to leave a plane which was delayed on the tarmac for more than four hours.
“In addition, the carrier failed to provide customers with food and water until almost four hours after the plane left the gate durin
