Caribbean Airlines will stop flying to Dominica and St Kitts, discontinue its non-stop Guyana and Suriname service, and cut flights to Martinique and Guadeloupe from June 1 as the state-owned carrier moves to stem a run of route losses.

The changes come after the majority state-owned airline reviewed its network and found several services launched under the 2023 Eastern Caribbean expansion had not been supported by adequate commercial justification. The company said the routes have been losing money since inception, and the latest adjustments are meant to turn those losses into operational savings.

The Dominica market had posted an overall loss of US$0.73 million as at April 2026, while St Kitts had lost US$1.65 million. The non-stop Guyana and Suriname service carried an overall loss of US$1.24 million, and the Martinique and Guadeloupe routes generated losses of US$1.23 million and US$1.86 million respectively. Under the new schedule, service to Martinique and Guadeloupe will fall from four weekly flights to two.

Eli Zakour said the airline’s earlier expansion aimed to strengthen regional connectivity, support tourism and facilitate trade, but the assumptions behind route selection, market size and financial projections proved far different from actual market conditions. He said the routes were introduced without adequate commercial justification and had generated sustained losses for the company since inception.

The latest cuts build on earlier retreats from the network. Caribbean Airlines discontinued the Jamaica-Fort Lauderdale route from November 2, 2025, after that service generated US$7.2 million in losses, and ended the Trinidad-Puerto Rico route from January 10, 2026, following US$4.92 million in losses. By April 2026, the combined loss on those routes had reached US$18.84 million, or more than TT$128 million.

The route review was ordered last year by the current administration through a routes oversight committee tasked with examining performance, profitability and strategic fit. That review now has produced the clearest reversal yet of the 2023 expansion into the Eastern Caribbean: a scaled-back network, fewer flights and a carrier trying to stop losses from widening further. Zakour said the discontinuation and service adjustments would allow those losses to be converted into operational savings and improved financial stability.