{"id":246423,"date":"2005-01-11T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/low-fare-carrier-gets-in-the-bahamian-spirit"},"modified":"2005-01-11T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T16:31:58","slug":"low-fare-carrier-gets-in-the-bahamian-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/low-fare-carrier-gets-in-the-bahamian-spirit","title":{"rendered":"Low-Fare Carrier Gets In The Bahamian Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The low-fare carrier Spirit Airlines began its service to the Bahamas yesterday with an inaugural flight from Fort Lauderdale to Nassau.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFollowing in the footsteps of other low-cost airlines such as JetBlue and Song Airways, the United States largest privately owned airline has added the Bahamas to its destinations.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAfter the arrival of the 150-passenger jet at Nassau International Airport (NIA), which was met by a Junkanoo group and a water arch, Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe welcomed the airline and said that low-fare carriers represent the right way forward for the Bahamas.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAddressing representatives of the Airport and Civil Aviation, as well as US charge d&#8217;affaires Robert Witajewski and chairman of the Nassau\/Paradise Island Promotion Board George Myers at a press conference held at the airport&#8217;s VIP lounge, Mr. Wilchcombe said that, &#8220;We recognise that this year more than a third of the travelling public used these airlines and next year more than 40 per cent will. So we know we&#8217;re going in the right direction, we know what it&#8217;s going to mean to our hotels and to the Bahamian people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><P><B><br \/>\nSource: Karin Herig, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe welcomed the airline and said that low-fare carriers represent the right way forward for the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246423","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}