{"id":50928,"date":"2003-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/bwia-to-start-tt-flights-to-dr\/"},"modified":"2003-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"bwia-to-start-tt-flights-to-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/10\/14\/bwia-to-start-tt-flights-to-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"BWIA to start T&amp;T flights to DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic and Trinidad will soon have a direct air connection.<br \/>\nBritish West Indies Airways announced flights starting 18 November. The airline<br \/>\nwill fly twice a week to Santo Domingo from Port of Spain. BWIA will be using<br \/>\na A319 jet with capacity for 154 passengers, as reported in Hoy newspaper.<br \/>\nThe flight could continue on to San Jos&eacute;, Costa Rica if fifth freedom<br \/>\nis granted. Fifth freedom enables airlines to carry passengers from a home country<br \/>\nto another intermediate country, and then fly on to a third country with the<br \/>\nright to pick passengers in the intermediate country.<br \/>\nThe Trinidad connection would give easy access to connect to Guyana, Suriname,<br \/>\nSt. Lucia, Granada and Barbados. It would also be an alternate route to be used<br \/>\nby those flying to England and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic and Trinidad will soon have a direct air connection. British West Indies Airways announced flights starting 18 November. The airline will fly twice a week to Santo Domingo from Port of Spain. BWIA will be using a A319 jet with capacity for 154 passengers, as reported in Hoy newspaper. The flight could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/10\/14\/bwia-to-start-tt-flights-to-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[235,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}