Caribbean Air­lines has warned pas­sen­gers to ex­pect de­lays on some of its jet ser­vices to­day due to a re­gion­al satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions out­age af­fect­ing the SI­TA sys­tem.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued this morn­ing, the air­line said, “The is­sue is not unique to Caribbean Air­lines and is af­fect­ing ALL air­lines us­ing this sys­tem.”

On­ly flights op­er­at­ed by the air­line’s Boe­ing 737-8 fleet have been af­fect­ed so far, with de­lays re­port­ed on sev­er­al re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al routes. Some pas­sen­gers have faced dis­rup­tions of up to four hours.

Caribbean Air­lines said the out­age stems from the SI­TA satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem, which sup­ports es­sen­tial avi­a­tion op­er­a­tions. “The ser­vice provider is work­ing to re­solve the is­sue,” the air­line stat­ed, as it urged pas­sen­gers to check for the lat­est up­dates via its web­site and so­cial me­dia plat­forms.

Guardian Me­dia reached out to SI­TA for fur­ther clar­i­fi­ca­tion on the na­ture and scope of the dis­rup­tion. The com­pa­ny ac­knowl­edged re­ceipt of our queries and promised to re­spond.

In the mean­time, Caribbean Air­lines is en­cour­ag­ing cus­tomers to stay in­formed by check­ing the “Flight Sta­tus” sec­tion at caribbean-air­lines.com or sign­ing up for re­al-time no­ti­fi­ca­tions.