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Founded | 1991 (as InterIsland Airways, Ltd.) | ||||||
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Fleet size | 16 | ||||||
Destinations | 23 | ||||||
Parent company | Interisland Aviation Services Group | ||||||
Headquarters | Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands | ||||||
Key people | Lyndon R. Gardiner, Chairman Trevor Sadler, CEO | ||||||
Website | www |
InterCaribbean Airways, Ltd. [1] (formerly known as Air Turks & Caicos) is a regional airline based in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The airline offers scheduled passenger flights and charter flight services from its hub in Providenciales International Airport. Since its launch in 1991, its travel destinations have expanded to multiple Caribbean islands including Antigua, The Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and St. Maarten.
The airline was established in 1991 as InterIsland Airways, Ltd. In 2003, the company rebranded to become Air Turks & Caicos. [2]
In 2008, Air Turks and Caicos merged with SkyKing. The SkyKing brand was integrated into the Air Turks and Caicos operations on 22 October 2008, and by mid-2009 the airline continued operating with a single air operator's certificate. [3]
In November 2013, after operating for 10 years as Air Turks & Caicos, the company rebranded as InterCaribbean Airways.
By June 2019, InterCaribbean Airways added the Embraer ERJ-145 regional jet aircraft to its fleet.
In addition to the ERJ-145 regional jets, the airline currently [as of when?] operates Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia propjets, in addition to one Embraer EMB 120 aircraft, as well as a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter turboprop aircraft. [4] InterCaribbean also previously operated the Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander twin prop aircraft. The Twin Otter aircraft joined the fleet in December 2015, while the Britten-Norman Islander aircraft has been retired. [5]
In 2022, InterCaribbean Airways gained operational rights in Jamaica as a non-Jamaican airline to operate domestic flights between the island's main airports, Kingston and Montego Bay. [6]
In February 2023, InterCaribbean announced it would start flying from St. Kitts to Barbados' Grantley Adams International Airport. [7]
The airline was crowned "World's Leading Regional Airline 2024" at the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA) Grand Final Gala Ceremony in Madeira, Portugal. It earlier won the title of "Caribbean's Leading Cabin Crew 2024 of the WTTC" [8]
As of February 2023, InterCaribbean Airways operated scheduled flights to the following destinations within the Caribbean:
According to the airline's website, the InterCaribbean Airways fleet currently includes the following aircraft: [4] [10]
Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Refs/Notes |
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ATR 42-500 | 4 | 5 | 48 | Regional Turboprop To replace Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia.[ citation needed ] Four parked |
ATR 72-500 | 1 | 68 | Regional Turboprop [11] | |
Bombardier CRJ700 | 1 | - | 70 | Twin jet regional jet |
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter | 1 | - | 19 | STOL capable twin engine turboprop |
Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia | 4 | - | 30 | Twin engine turboprop (planned retirement by end of 2024) 1 parked |
Embraer ERJ-145 | 3 | 50 | Twin engine regional jet | |
Total | 15 | 5 |
The airline leased Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia from October 2014 to February 2016 to Cayman Airways for scheduled inter-island passenger flights in the Cayman Islands. [12] The airline acquired two Embraer 145 [13] [14] regional jets, which it began operating commercially from early June 2019, and has since acquired an additional ERJ-145 aircraft.
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