Topic: CAL

Scores of passengers aboard Cayman Airways' non-stop flight from Los Angeles, California, to the Owen Roberts International Airport were greeted by government ministers and officials from the Ministry of Tourism, as they disembarked the inaugural flight on Sunday 6 Nov.

Cayman Airways has retired a Boeing 737-300 aircraft which has served the national flag carrier for more than a decade.

Cayman Airways announced the first commercial passenger flight using its 737 MAX8 planes since the aircraft was reinstated following a nearly two-year grounding will be to Miami, Florida, on Friday, 19 Feb.

Cayman Airways Limited say their Max-8 planes have undergone the necessary safety modifications and will be ready to return to service in the second half of February.

After sitting inactive in a Cayman Airways hanger for nearly a year, one of the airline’s Boeing 737-Max 8 aircraft will take to the skies this weekend. A statement issued on behalf of Cayman Airways said the trip is a necessary maintenance flight for the plane, which was delivered to the airline 30 Nov. 2018. “For almost a year, the grounded Max aircraft have been maintained under an active storage maintenance program as specified by the manufacturer,” the airline’s president and CEO, Fabian Whorms, said in a statement. “Routine maintenance flights become necessary over time as part of this maintenance program and are being conducted in coordination with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands and Boeing.”

Cayman Airways confirmed Friday that an emergency diversion of New York flight KX792 to Orlando International Airport in early September was prompted by a fault in the cargo compartment’s smoke detection system, which activated a fire warning system on the flight deck.

We made this flight just at the time when a rumor began circulating that the plane (too large) could not land at the Charles Kirkconnell International Airport (too small). What better way to disprove that “fake news” than a smooth landing with plenty of runway left over?