Contour Airlines announces nonstop service between Dominica and Trinidad

Brent Pin­heiro

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Less than two months af­ter Caribbean Air­lines end­ed ser­vice to Do­mini­ca, a new air­line will once again con­nect Trinidad and Do­mini­ca.

From Oc­to­ber 5, Con­tour Air­lines will be­gin twice week­ly ser­vice be­tween Trinidad's Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (POS) and Do­mini­ca's Dou­glas Charles Air­port (DOM).

In­bound flights will ar­rive in Pi­ar­co at 7.25 pm on Mon­days and Thurs­days, where the air­craft will overnight. Out­bound flights to Do­mini­ca will de­part Pi­ar­co at 8.30 am on Tues­days and Fri­days, ar­riv­ing at 9.50 am.

Con­tour is al­so in­tro­duc­ing one stop, same air­craft ser­vice be­tween Trinidad and San Juan, Puer­to Ri­co, and St Thomas via Do­mini­ca. Flights to Puer­to Ri­co will de­part Pi­ar­co on Tues­days and re­turn on Thurs­days, while flights to St Thomas will de­part on Fri­days and re­turn on Mon­days.

The air­line will op­er­ate the route us­ing its 30 seat Em­braer ERJ 135 air­craft.

In a me­dia re­lease, Con­tour Air­lines Pres­i­dent Ben Mun­son wel­comed the launch.

"This route strength­ens con­nec­tiv­i­ty with­in the East­ern Caribbean by mak­ing trav­el more con­ve­nient for res­i­dents, busi­ness­es and vis­i­tors alike," he said.

He added, "Pas­sen­gers will ben­e­fit from a fast, com­fort­able and re­li­able trav­el op­tion while sup­port­ing stronger eco­nom­ic and tourism ties be­tween these two vi­brant des­ti­na­tions."

Al­though an Amer­i­can re­gion­al car­ri­er, Con­tour has been grad­u­al­ly ex­pand­ing in the Caribbean, with St Maarten (SXM) re­cent­ly added to its net­work. Its ex­pan­sion comes as Caribbean Air­lines con­tin­ues to with­draw from sev­er­al re­gion­al mar­kets.

An­nounc­ing the de­ci­sion to end ser­vice to