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Commenced operations | 7 August 1968 | ||||||
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Hubs | Owen Roberts International Airport | ||||||
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Subsidiaries | founded= 1968 (as Cayman Brac Airways) | ||||||
Destinations | 12 | ||||||
Parent company | Cayman Islands Government | ||||||
Headquarters | George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | ||||||
Key people | Fabian Whorms CEO | ||||||
Website | caymanairways.com |
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Cayman Airways is the flag carrier airline of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. With its head office in Grand Cayman, it operates mainly as an international and domestic scheduled passenger carrier, with cargo services available on all routes. Its operations are based at Owen Roberts International Airport (GCM) in George Town, Grand Cayman. The airline also offers a limited charter service with a recent example being flights to and from Los Angeles. Cayman Airways' slogan is "Those who fly us love us".
The airline was established and started operations on August 7, 1968. It was formed following the Cayman Islands Government's purchase of 51% of Cayman Brac Airways from LACSA, the Costa Rican flag carrier, and became wholly government owned in December 1977. LACSA had been serving Grand Cayman since the mid 1950s as an intermediate stop on its route between San Jose, Costa Rica and Miami with some flights also making a stop in Havana, Cuba as well between Grand Cayman and Miami. In 1965, Cayman Brac Airways (which was also known as CBA Airways Ltd.) was operating regional services from Owen Roberts International Airport in George Town, Grand Cayman to Gerrard Smith International Airport on Cayman Brac as well as to Little Cayman via a flag stop and also to Montego Bay, Jamaica. According to this airline's 1 May 1965 system timetable, weekly service with a twin engine Beechcraft 18 aircraft was being operated on a routing of Grand Cayman – Little Cayman (flag stop only) – Cayman Brac – Montego Bay with an additional weekly service being flown between Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac with an intermediate stop on occasion at Little Cayman as a flag stop. This same timetable also states that connecting services for Grand Cayman were available to LACSA flights operated with Douglas DC-6B prop aircraft for service to Miami and also to Pan Am flights at Montego Bay for connecting service to Miami and New York City. By 1970, LACSA had introduced British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven twin jets on its San Jose, Costa Rica – Grand Cayman – Miami route.