Topic: Fabian Whorms

Delta Air Lines is to resume non-stop flights between Detroit and Grand Cayman this winter, with the service starting in December 2025 and running until April 2026.

The pandemic and the grounding of Boeing’s Max 8 aircraft amid an international safety crisis contributed to multi-million-dollar losses for Cayman Airways over the past five years.

Cayman Airways is set to announce a new international route at a press briefing on Monday.

As Cayman Airways prepares to relaunch its Panama route in June, CEO and President Fabian Whorms has said the national carrier has its sights set on adding two more new routes to the airline's schedule.

On average, 60% of seats on Cayman Airways' direct flights to Los Angeles have been filled since the route launched in early November last year, according to the airline's president Fabian Whorms.

Eight years after discontinuing the route, Cayman Airways will relaunch direct flights from Grand Cayman to Panama City from 26 June this year, in a bid to tap into the Latin American market.

From 1 Feb. 2023, it will cost Cayman Airways passengers a fixed fee of US$25 per bag, for the first two items of checked luggage on all international flights.

Cayman Airways First Officers Troy McCoy, Tarik Goring, Brian Seales and Geoffrey Connolly are set to move up to captain within the next 18 months.

Cayman Airways will receive another $7 million in government funding to cover its expenditures until the end of 2021.

Tributes paid to Cayman Airways pilots Captain Kris Bergstrom and Captain Leroy McLaughlin as they mark their final flight.

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.

One of Cayman Airways' 737-Max 8 aircraft arrived safely at a Boeing maintenance facility in the US, after completing a flight last Tuesday.

One of Cayman Airway’s two 737 Max 8 aircraft will depart Owen Roberts International Airport Monday for a Boeing maintenance facility in the US. The journey comes two days after the Max 8, VP-CIW, aircraft successfully conducted an hour-long maintenance flight test on Saturday evening.

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.”

When Southwest launched its inaugural flight from Baltimore last month, it also opened the 25th gateway airport for the Cayman Islands.

Cuba’s loss could be Cayman’s gain, following US President Donald Trump’s decision to ban cruise ships from travelling to the communist island.

The CARIFTA track and field event has been credited with boosting tourism arrivals in April as the Cayman Islands notched up another record month.

Cayman Airways’ second Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, VP-CIX, took off for Grand Cayman from the Boeing Field in Seattle Thursday.

Pirates, politicians and hundreds of onlookers waited anxiously Friday afternoon for the arrival of Cayman Airways’ newest jet, the Boeing 737 Max 8 – the first of its kind in the Caribbean.

Government is likely to have to inject significantly more cash into Cayman Airways to help fund the cost of its new fleet of aircraft at a time when the airline is suffering from falling revenues, legislators heard Thursday.

Cayman Airways released a statement Friday regarding the new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft it will receive later this year and the investigation relating to a plane of the same model that crashed in the Java Sea.

Cayman Airways will begin flying direct to Denver in March as the national airline seeks new horizons in the western United States.

Cayman Airways plans to implement fees for checked bags for the first time, while also lowering fees on excess, overweight and over-sized baggage.

Cayman Airways has taken a $6 million annual hit from the opening up of the Cuban market to U.S. airlines, prompting reevaluation of the national carrier’s strategy.

A Cayman Airways flight headed for New York had to return to Owen Roberts International Airport and make an emergency landing Sunday when it developed a problem with the jet’s pressurization system.

Cayman Airways’ newest jet, a Boeing 737-800, is back in service nearly two months after mechanical issues forced an emergency landing at Owen Roberts International Airport.

Cayman Airways does not yet know the cause of a mechanical issue that forced the emergency landing of a B737-800 aircraft bound for Tampa, Florida, earlier this month.

Cayman entrepreneur and chief agent for electric vehicles John Felder said he will meet U.S. Treasury Department officials “sooner rather than later” following reports that President Donald Trump is considering undoing Obama-era diplomatic and commercial openings to Cuba.

Cayman Airways launched its new twice-weekly nonstop flights from Grand Cayman to Roatan, Honduras, last week.“The Cayman Islands have had a long history with Honduras and particularly the Bay Islands,” said Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell.

Cayman Brac’s airport will remain closed to jet traffic until a new fire truck is shipped to the island to replace the vehicle that flipped over on the runway Thursday. Cayman Airways, the only operator which flies jet aircraft into the Brac, was forced to cancel flights and reshuffle its schedule over the weekend.

Cayman Airways chief Fabian Whorms on Thursday blamed “human error” for a Tuesday incident in which locking pins prevented retraction of landing gears on an outgoing flight, forcing it to return to Owen Roberts International Airport.

Once saddled with burgeoning “historical debts” of around $50 million, it appears Cayman’s national airline may finally be climbing out of a debt spiral that had threatened its operations in 2009/10.

Cayman Airways is seeking to lease a second Saab prop plane to operate on the commuter route between Grand Cayman and the Brac.