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Caribbean Airlines moves nearly 15,000 passengers during Tobago Carnival

07 November 2026
This content originally appeared on Trinidad Guardian.
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Caribbean Air­lines trans­port­ed 14,935 pas­sen­gers on the do­mes­tic air­bridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the eight-day pe­ri­od sur­round­ing To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

The air­line said the pas­sen­gers trav­elled be­tween Oc­to­ber 28 and No­vem­ber 4, 2026, re­flect­ing the in­creased de­mand for air trans­porta­tion dur­ing the Car­ni­val pe­ri­od.

To ac­com­mo­date the an­tic­i­pat­ed in­flux of trav­ellers, Caribbean Air­lines added 8,000 seats to its reg­u­lar do­mes­tic air­bridge sched­ule, with the ad­di­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty in­tro­duced from as ear­ly as Oc­to­ber 15.

The air­line al­so ac­com­mo­dat­ed nu­mer­ous stand­by pas­sen­gers through­out the pe­ri­od, pro­vid­ing ad­di­tion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties for peo­ple seek­ing to trav­el be­tween the is­lands.

In a state­ment, Caribbean Air­lines said the ad­di­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty formed part of its com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing re­li­able con­nec­tiv­i­ty be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing pe­ri­ods of height­ened trav­el de­mand.

The air­line thanked pas­sen­gers for choos­ing its ser­vices dur­ing To­ba­go Car­ni­val and com­mend­ed its op­er­a­tional teams for their ef­forts in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the move­ment of trav­ellers through­out the busy pe­ri­od.

Caribbean Air­lines said it re­mained com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing safe, re­li­able and ef­fi­cient air trans­porta­tion while sup­port­ing the con­tin­ued de­vel­op­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tourism and eco­nom­ic sec­tors.