Barbados-based low-cost carrier REDjet plans to launch new routes from as early as September and add a third Boeing MD-80 to its fleet by early December.
The airline, which started operations in May, will begin flights to Panama, St Maarten, St Lucia, Antigua and Jamaica in September or October, said the carrier's founder Robbie Burns.
Burns leads the airline along with his father, Ian Burns, who is REDjet's CEO and chairman. It currently operates flights between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, as well as flights between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.
REDjet is also on the hunt for a second base for its aircraft, where it foresees it will add three additional aircraft, said Burns. It is in talks with four airports and expects to launch a second base in the fourth quarter of 2012, he explained.
The airline has expressed plans to begin flights to the US but is not able to do so because of Barbados' category 2 rating assigned by the US Federal Aviation Administration, which prevents the country's carriers from launching flights to the US.
However, Burns said the goal to begin US flights remains as part of the airline's "medium term plans", which it hopes to roll out once Barbados regains a category 1 rating.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
