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interCaribbean Airways Cancels Planned Operations In U.S. Virgin Islands

ST. THOMAS -- interCaribbean Airways, which recently announced connecting flights to St. Thomas and St. Croix, made known on Tuesday the cancellation of its planned St. Thomas and St. Croix routes. "interCaribbean Airways with a heavy heart must advise the Caribbean traveling public that services to St. Thomas and to St. Croix are canceled. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this causes those customers with planned travel arrangements on these flights," read a release the airline issued. The Turks and Caicos-based carrier said it had been working for several months to have the U.S.V.I. filings process completed, but the process, which the airline described as lengthy and arduous, was not possible to manage in tandem with setting up all other operations. "Such has been the process, that other requirements to setup at the airports are unable to be advanced without this completed," the company said. "interCaribbean over a month ago deployed an additional aircraft to Tortola in r...