One of the Caribbean Basin’s leading carriers is getting bigger. Panama-based Copa Airlines recently agreed with Boeing on the purchase of 61 new 737 MAX 8 and 9 aircraft.

Once the transaction has been formalized, the Company will announce its details to the market. This transaction will represent an important milestone in the life of GAP.

With growing competition from neighboring Caribbean nations and the changing face of its own islands, the Cayman Island Tourism Board (CITB) decided it was time to explore new options to support the Creative and Public Relations needs of its business.

In the last five years, Europe has lost a total of 73 scheduled airlines, meaning that if the trend continues there will be no European-based airlines in 25 years, according to John Grant, Executive Vice President of OAG.

Dilip Sarjoe, owner of Fly All Ways Airline of Suriname, a sister company of Suriname’s Blue Wing Airlines that has been blacklisted by the European Union, was promised lucrative concessions to make Guyana one of its hubs, according to people familiar with the development.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico Secretary of Tourism Claudia Ruiz Massieu and Governor of the Mexican State of Quintana Roo Roberto Borge Angulo were on hand Thursday at the Vidanta Theater to help announce Grupo Vidanta's $1.3 billion investment in new tourism projects.