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PRESS RELEASE

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Piarco, Trinidad & Tobago - October 5, 2018, Air Caribbean is advising customers that we have cancelled 44 of its 252 scheduled flights on October 5, 2018, due to an unnecessary and unreasonable strike by our cabin crew in Trinidad & Tobago. All affected customers have received email messages this morning advising them of their flight cancellation, where we are waiving the rebooking fee.

Air Caribbean sincerely regrets these unnecessary customer disruptions, which have been called by the unions. The cause of the strike stems from unjustified claims about unfair wages, where Air Caribbean is actively in healthy wage discussions with their recognized unions, where we plan on increasing wages by 100%.

Air Caribbean sincerely apologises to the 4,800 customers who are likely to be affected by these unjustified disruptions.

Air Caribbean Chief Operations Officer Paul Blake said:

“We sincerely apologise to those customers affected by these unnecessary strikes, which we have done our utmost to avoid, given that we are having discussions with these unions about wage increases. This strike is completely unjustified and will only hurt the cabin crew in the long run. Our Cabin crew in the Madrid and Jamaica bases are doing fine, we have heard of no complaints from them about possible wage increases. We believe our Cabin Crew in Trinidad & Tobago are completely unfair and unrealistic in the demands they want."