T&T's Un­der 15 boys team is still on lo­cal soil due to the un­avail­abil­i­ty of flights leav­ing Port-of-Spain en route to Cay­man Is­lands.

Ini­tial­ly the team was sched­uled to de­part yes­ter­day morn­ing be­fore Co­pa Air­lines in­formed the TTFA that there were in­suf­fi­cient seats avail­able on its flights to Pana­ma City from which the team was due to con­nect to the Cay­man Is­lands.

Fur­ther at­tempts to get the team out via oth­er ex­ist­ing routes proved fu­tile again due to the un­avail­abil­i­ty of seats. This has left the TTFA with the op­tion of se­cur­ing a char­ter flight to the Cay­mans to­day.

TTFA gen­er­al sec­re­tary Shel­don Phillips has been in dis­cus­sion with var­i­ous gov­ern­ment of­fices and per­son­nel on this mat­ter and is await­ing fur­ther word. The TTFA se­cured fund­ing as­sis­tance from the Min­istry of Sport for the team's trav­el ear­li­er this week but Co­pa Air­lines was un­able to guar­an­tee suf­fi­cient book­ings, ad­vis­ing the TTFA of an un­suc­cess­ful at­tempt to arrange for use of a larg­er flight yes­ter­day.

Con­ca­caf, mean­while, has been ad­vised of the team's trav­el woes and is ex­pect­ed to an­nounce a resched­uled kick off date for T&T's open­ing match against St Kitts/Nevis which was sched­uled for last night. The tour­na­ment, fea­tur­ing 24 na­tions, will bring to­geth­er more than 400 play­ers be­tween the ages of 13-15, al­low­ing them a first ex­pe­ri­ence at high­er lev­el foot­ball on a re­gion­al stage.

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