Chief Sec­re­tary, Far­ley Au­gus­tine, has clar­i­fied that To­ba­go is not seek­ing a re­place­ment for Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia last evening, he said rather than a re­place­ment, they are look­ing at al­ter­na­tive strate­gies for the air­bridge.

Au­gus­tine men­tioned two pos­si­ble strate­gies, one be­ing wet leas­ing planes to work with CAL and the oth­er be­ing in­ter­na­tion­al air­lift from a new air­line com­ing to the is­land.

Au­gus­tine said, “I see some peo­ple run­ning away with the state­ment as if we are seek­ing a re­place­ment for Caribbean Air­lines. I said no such thing. In fact, I went through two strate­gies for air­lift. I said we are look­ing at wet leas­ing planes to work with CAL. And I spoke about in­ter­na­tion­al air­lift from a new air­line com­ing to the Is­land.”

Last week, Au­gus­tine an­nounced the as­sem­bly’s in­ten­tion to in­tro­duce a new air­line that would see ad­di­tion­al in­ter­na­tion­al and lo­cal flights out of To­ba­go.