Caribbean Airlines announces cancellations, delays over US shutdown

Caribbean Air­lines has an­nounced wide­spread flight can­cel­la­tions and de­lays across its North Amer­i­can and re­gion­al net­work af­ter a na­tion­al ground stop re­strict­ed US air­space on Fri­day.

The air­line con­firmed that the US air­space re­stric­tions have dis­rupt­ed all flights en­ter­ing and de­part­ing the Unit­ed States. The car­ri­er not­ed that it is ac­tive­ly mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion and re­mains in com­mu­ni­ca­tion with rel­e­vant avi­a­tion au­thor­i­ties.

Four flights sched­uled for Fri­day, No­vem­ber 13, have been can­celled:

BW78: Toron­to to Kingston, Ja­maica

BW617: Toron­to to George­town, Guyana

BW481: Fort Laud­erdale to Trinidad

BW526: George­town, Guyana to New York

Caribbean Air­lines stat­ed that pas­sen­gers booked on the can­celled flights will be re-ac­com­mo­dat­ed on the next avail­able ser­vices.

Four ad­di­tion­al ser­vices sched­uled across Fri­day and Sat­ur­day have been de­layed, and the air­line's reser­va­tions teams are cur­rent­ly con­tact­ing af­fect­ed trav­el­ers:

BW601 (Nov. 13): Toron­to to Trinidad

BW520 (Nov. 14): Trinidad to New York

BW521 (Nov. 14): New York to Trinidad

BW527 (Nov. 14): New York to Guyana to Trinidad

Trav­el­ers sched­uled to fly with­in the next 24 hours are ad­vised to check their flight sta­tus on the Caribbean Air­lines web­site.