British Airways has launched its new Caribbean campaign offering customers better value holiday packages. The airline, which flies to more Caribbean islands than any other carrier from the UK, is running the campaign this March together with local tourist board partners, including Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts, Dominican Republic, Cancun plus Bermuda.

The US government has given permission to eight more airports to offer direct charter flights to and from Cuba in the latest small opening in the 49-year-long US trade embargo against the island nation.

Jet Airways and US Airways have announced a reciprocal frequent flyer partnership. JetPrivilege members now can earn and redeem JPMiles while they travel on the entire global network of US Airways.

American Airlines has now been serving Haiti for 40 years. It flew its first fight, a Boeing 707, on March 2, 1971, into Port-au-Prince. Today, American offers six daily nonstop flights to Haiti -- three from Miami International Airport, two from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and one from New York’s JFK Airport. American operates flights into Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport with its Boeing 737 and 767 aircraft.

Transportation between Montserrat and Antigua is expected to get easier after St Vincent Grenadines Air (SVG Air) was approved to operate daily scheduled commercial air services between the two islands.

Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, has met here with Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, and United Nations World Tourism Organization Regional Director for the Americas, Carlos Vogeler