{"id":1314,"date":"2010-08-25T20:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T00:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2010-08-25T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T01:00:26","slug":"airlift-to-family-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/airlift-to-family-islands","title":{"rendered":"Company To Expand Airlift To Family Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based AvStar Aviation&#8217;s newly-appointed chief executive told Tribune  Business yesterday that his company is hoping to open up airlift to  Eleuthera and Abaco from West Palm Beach by year-end, in a bid to expand  the operations of recently-acquired Twin Air Calypso, which has  serviced the Bahamas from Fort Lauderdale for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Gamber added that the new service could deliver 100 individuals  to those islands four days per week through scheduled service. He said  the route is as marketable today as it has been in the past, since it is  frequently travelled by West Palm and Abaco residents.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gamber added that as AvStar Aviation grows Twin Air, they will  eventually expand their fleet of aircraft and routes in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the work we do is between Eleuthera and Abaco, and these are  the destinations where we want to make service better,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;Eventually we will look further into the Bahamas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twin Air currently services Eleuthera and Abaco with six aircraft, consisting of Piper Navjos and Cessna 402s.<\/p>\n<p><em>By CHESTER ROBARDS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based AvStar Aviation&#8217;s newly-appointed chief executive announced yesterday that his company is hoping to open up airlift to Eleuthera and Abaco from West Palm Beach by year-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,33],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-airlines","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}