Shal­iza Has­sanali

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) chair­man Ra­bindra Moo­nan has promised that the air­line will pull out all stops to en­sure that tourists, for­eign­ers and Trinida­di­ans liv­ing in the Unit­ed States ar­rive in time for Car­ni­val.

In a flight ad­vi­so­ry yes­ter­day, CAL stat­ed that they had re­sumed flights in­to and out of New York's JFK In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, fol­low­ing the can­cel­la­tion of sev­er­al flights on Thurs­day due a ma­jor snow­storm af­fect­ing New York.

Hun­dreds of Trinida­di­ans and tourists liv­ing in the Unit­ed States seek­ing to come to T&T for the start of Car­ni­val ac­tiv­i­ties were strand­ed, with many vent­ing their feel­ings on a so­cial net­work about the air­line's clo­sure.

Moo­nan said the air­line was op­er­at­ing ac­cord­ing to its ten sched­uled flights post­ed on CAL's Web site and Face­book ac­count yes­ter­day.

He could not say if there were long lines or de­lays in flights at JFK.

"I have no in­for­ma­tion on that...I would as­sume, based on my last con­ver­sa­tion with them (JFK) that every­thing is op­er­at­ing smooth­ly."

Moo­nan said it was un­for­tu­nate that Trinida­di­ans liv­ing in the Unit­ed States who were try­ing to come home for Car­ni­val were left strand­ed for sev­er­al hours.

"We have pulled out all stops to make it pos­si­ble. By to­mor­row (to­day) every­body should be back to nor­mal in Trinidad...who are booked to come here. We are en­sur­ing that no one is left back."

Moo­nan could not say how many pas­sen­gers from JFK were sched­uled to ar­rive in T&T over the week­end.

"If you take an av­er­age of 150 to 160 pas­sen­gers per flight. We had four or five flights per day. Let's say 700 pas­sen­gers per day."