The Caribbean’s newest airline, REDjet, which has branded itself as the region’s first low-cost carrier, has announced plans to begin selling tickets today.
In a statement, the airline said that “our first flights will launch from the 8th May and will feature frequent trips to our first destinations, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad”.
“We know that so many you have all been eagerly awaiting our launch and the feedback has been massive. We promised not to disappoint and not only are we launching with fares from US$9.99 one-way excluding Government Taxes and Charges, but we are also launching 250,000 seats for US$49.99 or under,” the airline said.
to please please wind air is no longer flying to dominica
The New Winair website, instituted 7 April, does show Dominica as one of their destinations and their booking system does accept flight bookings during May. Maybe you know more than Winair put into the public domain and if so we would all like to share that.
when are we going to have our night landing, when cock get tooth, that is as possible as the pope becoming a rasta and smoking weed in public there is going to be no legal night landing in Dominica as there is only a one way takeoff, so we wont be able to have any of that cheap fare
Take that back for your information wind air is landing in the night get your facts together
competition is GOOD! They need to add D/ca to one of their destinations! We are being taken advantage of by our sole airline provider because we don’t have a choice!
Penetration pricing people
Dominica cannot accomodate our airline.
the flight is 9.99 tax mustttttttttt be $60…cuz no way they go be successful at that 9.99 rate
Which airline can stay in business on $9.99 fares? What is the bus fare from Roseau to Marigot?
Allan Stanford tried the low cost approach. He was losing money hands over fists. Ask Air Jamaica about the cost of running an airline. Talk to CAL which is heavily subsidized by the Trini government. Even with subsidized cost of fuel, they are still losing money.
I hope they have a direct connection to Fort Knox. With rising fuel prices and low fares, they will need to tap into that vault.
LOL LOL
No need to be that pessimistic. Both Easy jet and Ryan air in Europe are highly successful medium-range discount carriers, which co-exist alongside regular airlines such as B.A., Lufthansa, Air France-KLM etc. and I’m sure Redjet will have studied their business models very closely.
First of all the rates quoted are in U.S.$ (not E.C.$ ). Secondly, not all seats will be available at U.S.$9.99. This is merely a come-on, an “enticer”, which whilst true will not be extended to all passengers on any given flight. One would have to study the offer very closely to determine conditions and any possible add-ons. After all that, remember you still have an option to fly to Trinidad, Jamaica or Guiana by either LIAT and/or CAL but these will have to offer a superior, all-in service to justify their higher fares. And yes, it is possible to fly by Ryanair from London to a destination in Europe for less than the taxi fare to the airport!
Europe is not the Caribbean. Look at the economies of scale.
Let’s talk in 2 years. If they are still around I will eat my words.
Piper, you are right. That’s why Redjet concentrate on high volume routes, just like the budget airlines do in Europe. There is one other important factor, which we must not overlook. Carriers like Redjet tap into a market that hitherto would not have travelled by air and would not have been customers of regular carriers like LIAT because of because of cost constraints. In other words, their business model expands the overall market for air travel. I wish them luck.
Brammm Brammm when Dominica is added to there schedule send me an email.
Have me going on redjet.com to book flight stupes.
Flight is joke! alu doh hear 1.15 news? America they wanted to fly, and america doh give them licence, bajans not caribbean friendly, is Jamaica, Trinidad and America they want to hear about, we too small for them,baych
LOL…….
LOL THAT’S SO TRUE WE TO SMALL FOR THEM,BUT WE HAVE MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL SIGHTS THAN THEM.HAHA
And the prices are ridiculously cheap. CAL and LIAT has already started dropping airfares featuring these four destination…
Talk about healthy competition!!!
that well cheap papa i hope is not to- show -to- flam,but in any case,they should fly to d/a to ,give liat some competition
Well is just a pilot run, soon they’ll be uping the prices…………they can’t sustain an airline on such cheap flights.
Boy I hope dca get some flights from redjet. We really need it. Even if it is once a week via Bdos. People will go for that connection instead of liat, trust me. On e the service is good. And it will make a change to those little cramp up seats too. Jah know my knees take enough pain on those little planes already.