In a preliminary meeting on Monday, Cayman Airways and Air Jamaica began to explore several areas of cooperation that would redound to the benefit of both carriers.

AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc., announced today that it will add nonstop flights between Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and San Juan Luis Munoz Marin International Airport beginning December 20, 2008.

St Vincent and the Grenadines Tourism Minister had called on Caribbean governments to invest in the region’s carriers instead of subsidizing international airlines.

Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has announced it is offering a daily nonstop service from its Fort Lauderdale base to Bogota, Colombia, starting 24 July. The new route will be operated by Spirit’s new Airbus fleet, the youngest in the Americas.

Southwest Airlines has announced that the carrier will utilize a brand new optimization model to add service in select markets and tweak its schedule. Through the elimination of 31 existing roundtrip flights from its current flight schedule, Southwest has added 40 new roundtrip flights in key growth cities such as Denver and Ft. Lauderdale and Hollywood.

WestJet today announced the introduction of seasonal nonstop service to two new international sun destinations in the Caribbean: Bridgetown, Barbados and La Romana, Dominican Republic.