Caribbean Airlines cuts six Eastern Caribbean routes from June 1

Caribbean Airlines will stop flying to Dominica and St Kitts, end its non-stop Guyana and Suriname service, and reduce flights to Martinique and Guadeloupe from June 1. The changes come after Eli Zakour, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, told the Senate that CAL has been directed to make several network adjustments.

Zakour said the airline is shifting away from routes that have drained money from the company. As at April 2026, the Dominica market had recorded a loss of US$0.73 million, St Kitts US$1.65 million, the Guyana and Suriname service US$1.24 million, Martinique US$1.23 million and Guadeloupe US$1.86 million.

Eli Zakour on CAL losses

In his Senate statement, Zakour said: “While the stat­ed ob­jec­tives of strength­en­ing re­gion­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty, sup­port­ing tourism, and fa­cil­i­tat­ing trade were sound in prin­ci­ple, the pro­jec­tions un­der­pin­ning route se­lec­tion, mar­ket siz­ing, and fi­nan­cial as­sump­tions sup­port­ing that ex­pan­sion have since proven sig­nif­i­cant­ly dif­fer­ent than the ac­tu­al mar­ket con­di­tions.” He also said the routes launched under the 2023 expansion programme “were in­tro­duced with­out ad­e­quate com­mer­cial jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and have gen­er­at­ed sus­tained fi­nan­cial loss­es for the com­pa­ny since in­cep­tion”.

Caribbean Airlines is majority state-owned. The cuts reverse the Eastern Caribbean expansion launched in 2023 under the previous board of directors and with the support of the then Government.

Route review results

Last year, a routes oversight committee was set up to conduct a comprehensive review of route performance, profitability and strategic alignment. The review also covered the Jamaica-Fort Lauderdale route, which was discontinued on November 2, 2025 after losses of US$7.2 million, and the Trinidad-Puerto Rico route, which ended on January 10, 2026 after losses of US$4.92 million.

The combined loss on those routes stood at US$18.84 million as at April 2026, or more than TT$128 million. Zakour said the discontinuation and service adjustments will allow those losses to be converted into operational savings and improved financial stability.

June 1 schedule changes

From June 1, the Dominica and St Kitts markets will lose Caribbean Airlines service entirely. Martinique and Guadeloupe will move from four weekly flights to two, and the non-stop Guyana and Suriname link will end, leaving travelers on those routes to adjust to the reduced network that replaces the 2023 expansion.