Caribbean Airlines launches luxury airport taxi service in US

Caribbean Air­lines has in­tro­duced a new lux­u­ry air­port taxi ser­vice in the Unit­ed States, al­low­ing pas­sen­gers to book pri­vate ground trans­porta­tion as part of their trav­el ex­pe­ri­ence.

The air­line an­nounced on Wednes­day that the ser­vice is be­ing of­fered through in­de­pen­dent provider Dig­ni­tary Trav­el World­wide and is avail­able for trav­el to and from se­lect US air­ports and des­ti­na­tions.

Cus­tomers can arrange trans­porta­tion ei­ther be­fore de­part­ing for the air­port or up­on ar­rival at their des­ti­na­tion. The ser­vice caters to both in­di­vid­u­als and groups, with ve­hi­cles rang­ing from stan­dard cars and SU­Vs to ex­ec­u­tive ve­hi­cles and mo­tor coach­es ca­pa­ble of ac­com­mo­dat­ing up to 55 pas­sen­gers, sub­ject to avail­abil­i­ty.

The of­fer­ing al­so in­cludes sev­er­al pre­mi­um fea­tures, in­clud­ing flight mon­i­tor­ing for air­port pick­ups, child and in­fant seat­ing op­tions, wheel­chair-ac­ces­si­ble trans­porta­tion on re­quest and 24-hour cus­tomer sup­port.

Caribbean Air­lines Act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Var­ma Khillawan said the ini­tia­tive is aimed at mak­ing trav­el more seam­less be­yond the flight it­self.

“Our fo­cus is on mak­ing trav­el eas­i­er for our cus­tomers, not on­ly on­board our air­craft, but through­out their over­all jour­ney,” Khillawan said.

He added that the ser­vice gives pas­sen­gers greater flex­i­bil­i­ty in plan­ning trans­porta­tion to and from the air­port while en­hanc­ing the over­all trav­el ex­pe­ri­ence.

The taxi ser­vice can be ac­cessed through a ded­i­cat­ed book­ing link on the Caribbean Air­lines web­site. How­ev­er, the air­line said the trans­porta­tion is op­er­at­ed in­de­pen­dent­ly by Dig­ni­tary Trav­el World­wide.

As a re­sult, all book­ings, pay­ments, amend­ments, can­cel­la­tions, re­funds and cus­tomer en­quiries re­lat­ing to the ground trans­port ser­vice will be han­dled di­rect­ly by the provider un­der its own terms and con­di­tions.

Dig­ni­tary Trav­el World­wide spe­cialis­es in pri­vate air­port and des­ti­na­tion trans­fers for both leisure and busi­ness trav­ellers. Its fleet in­cludes lux­u­ry and ex­ec­u­tive ve­hi­cles, lim­ou­sines, SU­Vs and mo­tor coach­es, with ser­vices sup­port­ed by re­al-time flight mon­i­tor­ing and round-the-clock cus­tomer as­sis­tance.

The new ground trans­porta­tion op­tion forms part of Caribbean Air­lines’ broad­er strat­e­gy to ex­pand cus­tomer ser­vices be­yond air trav­el, pro­vid­ing pas­sen­gers with added con­ve­nience through­out their jour­ney.

The air­line did not spec­i­fy which US air­ports are in­clud­ed in the ini­tial roll­out but said the ser­vice is avail­able to cus­tomers trav­el­ling to and from se­lect des­ti­na­tions in the Unit­ed States.