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Caribbean Airlines to cut VI route effective January 2026

Caribbean Airlines to suspend flying to and from the Virgin Islands effective January 2026. Photo: CAL
Caribbean Airlines made its inaugural flight to the Virgin Islands (VI) this morning, October 14, 2024, touching down at the Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport in Tortola sometime after 11:00 a.m. Photo: Facebook/File
Caribbean Airlines made its inaugural flight to the Virgin Islands (VI) this morning, October 14, 2024, touching down at the Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport in Tortola sometime after 11:00 a.m. Photo: Facebook/File
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago- Caribbean Airlines (CAL) will be suspending routes, including to the Virgin Islands (VI), effective January 2026.

The airlines broke the news of the suspended routes in a media release on December 2, 2025. 

The routes suspended will be to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Tortola, effective January 10, 2026, in addition to the suspension of CAL’s Barbados base of operations at the Grantley Adams International Airport in February 2026. 

Route performance played a role in decision

The move is part of an “ongoing Network Optimisation Programme”, CAL said, adding that elements of its regional operations will be adjusted to “enhance schedule reliability, maintain competitiveness and ensure long-term sustainability. 

This is the fourth route CAL’s management has either cut or suspended. 

The airlines discontinued services connecting Jamaica through Kingston and Montego Bay with Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on November 2, 2025. 

The airline added the VI to its network just over a year ago, on October 14, 2024, via the Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport. CAL began operations with four flights weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, promising 540 seats in and out of Tortola each week. 

However, CAL said the routes were suspended “following comprehensive evaluations of route performance and resource deployment”.

While the VI will be losing Caribbean Airlines, it still has Winair, InterCaribbean Airways and Liat 2020, which all connect the Region.

7 Responses to “Caribbean Airlines to cut VI route effective January 2026”

  • Run way! (03/12/2025, 08:23) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Is the runway too short for them?
  • 2024 (03/12/2025, 08:23) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    any business can walk into our home land and do as they want but you and me have to subservient

    The Bank comes Road Town and sell off your property once they not making Money. The foreign carriers comes in and within a year pulls out because they pocket not filling up


  • RICHARD (03/12/2025, 08:26) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    "If a billionaire wants to become a millionaire fast, tell him to invest in an airline that flies into the BVI"
    • @ Richard (03/12/2025, 09:15) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      @Richard, explain? Airlines add and stop routes all the time. If a route is not profitable, airline(s) will make adjustments. Further, if an airline does not have the assets to effectively and efficiently, it makes route adjustments. The passenger airline industry is a business; it is profit driven. Investment is a risk and investors tend to make prudent investment decisions.
  • BuzzBvi (03/12/2025, 08:46) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    It is in the REPORT. There is no business case for a VI airport extention.

    There is no business case for local airlines now.

    SECRETS.
  • No more free money. (03/12/2025, 09:01) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Once government stop the subsidy, they all run, its the free money why they are here
  • jack (03/12/2025, 09:06) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Well hope there is a replacement on the way


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