RED­jet, the Caribbean's low fare air­line, yes­ter­day an­nounced that its fares from Ja­maica to Bar­ba­dos and Trinidad will go on sale from to­day via the air­line's Web site www.fly­red­jet.com and through its call cen­tre and re­tail lo­ca­tions. The an­nounce­ment came af­ter RED­jet got the green light to op­er­ate in Ja­maica from the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty, much to the de­light of lo­cal trav­ellers. "RED­jet will com­mence tick­et sales for routes in and out of Ja­maica this Fri­day through our Web site. Per­sons can al­so pur­chase tick­ets through our Call Cen­tres and pay­ment out­lets in all the coun­tries where there is a RED­jet op­er­a­tion." said Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Di­rec­tor Rob­bie Burns.

RED­jet will op­er­ate Bar­ba­dos to Ja­maica and Trinidad to Ja­maica routes and is con­fi­dent they will man­age the new pas­sen­ger load with a re­cent­ly ac­quired third air­craft, Nick­i­tas­tic. Fares for these routes will start at US$9.99 each way ex­clu­sive of tax­es and charges. "Our first flights to Ja­maica will be­gin on Sun­day, No­vem­ber 20 from both Trinidad and Bar­ba­dos. We know that many of our cus­tomers and re­gion­al trav­ellers have been wait­ing on the launch of these routes," Burns com­ment­ed. He con­tin­ued say­ing that "the air­line will op­er­ate flights to and from Bar­ba­dos twice week­ly, and the same will go for Trinidad." Burns added that hav­ing per­son­al­ly lived in Ja­maica, he could at­test to the cur­rent headaches as­so­ci­at­ed with in­tra-Caribbean trav­el.

"In­tra-Caribbean trav­el in the past was al­most like a pas­sen­ger ask­ing for a favour. There was no cus­tomer ser­vice, the fares were ex­or­bi­tant and the rout­ing was a night­mare." Burns said. RED­jet is cred­it­ed with forc­ing its di­rect com­pe­ti­tion, Caribbean Air­lines, to rad­i­cal­ly low­er fares, and RED­jet's CEO and Chair­man Ian Burns promis­es that the pres­sure is not about to ease up. "We pride our­selves on be­ing a breath of fresh air in re­gion­al trav­el. We are ex­pand­ing to meet the needs of our cus­tomers and the de­mand for our ser­vice. We're in this busi­ness and in this re­gion for the long haul, and will con­tin­ue to have the best and low­est fares," he said.

The CEO and chair­man al­so said RED­jet's fleet would in­crease to five air­craft, with one air­craft due to be in ser­vice by De­cem­ber and an­oth­er dur­ing the first quar­ter of 2012. Burns al­so re­vealed that RED­jet al­so en­tered in­to a wet-lease agree­ment with an air­line that has five air­craft that are on stand­by in the Unit­ed States for when­ev­er they were need­ed, re­as­sur­ing cus­tomers that the air­line would be able to han­dle the pas­sen­ger load.

RED­jet's call cen­tre num­ber in Ja­maica is 377-2222, and the com­pa­ny will soon an­nounce its list of re­tail lo­ca­tions. Pas­sen­gers will al­so be able to book on­line or via the call cen­tre and pay with­in 24 hours at a Pay­Mas­ter bill pay­ment lo­ca­tions is­land wide to make it easy for those pas­sen­gers who do not use cred­it cards.