Article: Air Jamaica suspends flights to eastern Caribbean for a month

HOWARD CAMPBELL, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-19-2005
Dateline: KINGSTON, Jamaica
Air Jamaica has suspended flights to three eastern Caribbean countries for a month in an effort to comply with local safety regulations, the latest in a series of setbacks for the struggling carrier.

Air Jamaica announced Friday that it was pulling service to Grenada, St. Lucia and Barbados to meet the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority's new maintenance guidelines.

The decision came a month after Air Jamaica pulled half its 20 planes out of service and canceled several U.S. and Britain-bound flights after a U.S. Federal Aviation audit raised questions about the airline's maintenance schedule.

The FAA ...

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