Fly Jamaica Airways’ headquarters at 2 Holborn Road, Kingston 10, was abuzz with laughter and heartwarming trips down memory lane, as Buzzz Magazine sat down for an exclusive interview with Lisa Love who serves as Assistant Manager – Inflight Services and Instructor for the ‘likkle but tallawah’ carrier which aims to maintain its “one team, one dream” identity.
When the curtains came down on Jamaica’s flagship carrier, Air Jamaica, many hearts were broken and tears shed; that cherished piece of Jamaica would no longer fly.
Along came Captain Paul Ronald Reece with his long held dream of starting an international operation within the Americas. In 1984 Captain Reece and his wife Roxanne started Wings Aviation Ltd in Guyana. Wings Aviation celebrated 32 years in business earlier this year. Capt. Reece has been flying since 1978 and is qualified on numerous small and medium sized Cessna aircraft, Mitsubishi MU2, the Robinson R22, Hughes 500, Bell 212 & Bell 214 helicopters, the Boeing 707, Boeing 757-200, & the Boeing 767-300 ER.
For Fly Jamaica Airways Capt. and Mrs. Reece partnered to provide the financial capital and seventy combined years of administrative, management & technical aviation experience to realise ‘the dream’.
The stage was set for Fly Jamaica to debut its Boeing 757-200 for the inaugural flight on February 14, 2013. The top of the line aircraft boasts a Rolls-Royce engine and seating capacity of 198. Later in 2014, the airline added its Boeing 767-300 ER carrier with 246 seats. Thanks to ‘the team’, a little piece of Jamaica flies again.
Between 2011, the year the company was registered and 2013, the year Fly Jamaica Airways commenced flying, the airline employed over 145 Jamaicans. Today Fly Jamaica employs over 300 staff internationally.
Fly Jamaica also provides additional services which include Cargo and Charters. Fly Jamaica Airways Cargo commenced operations in June 2015 with a shipment of birds into New York.The business has grown consistently to the extent where in less than one (1) year it has become the leading cargo carrier from Kingston Jamaica, and Georgetown Guyana, into Canada and the USA among passenger-carrying commercial airlines operating in the region. Fly Jamaica offers a convenient, reliable and efficient cargo service and very competitive rates in the industry.
Fly Jamaica Airways commenced its charter operations in 2015, with its first flight to Cuba. Since then the airline has successfully conducted charters to Nassau, Costa Rica, Santiago de Cuba and Haiti.
With plans for future growth and expansion, the airline invites everyone to experience its reliable first class service in the air. All Fly Jamaica passengers “can enjoy the down to earth, ‘no highty-tighty’ energy from the crew and feel at home,” stated Love. “Local food and products are offered inflight. We take great care of everyone, especially our seniors and unaccompanied minors. Our flight attendants tun up!”
To continue reading, purchase Vol.8 #8, 2016 Issue.
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Fly Jamaica Airways’ headquarters at 2 Holborn Road, Kingston 10, was abuzz with laughter and heartwarming trips down memory lane, as Buzzz Magazine sat down for an exclusive interview with Lisa Love who serves as Assistant Manager – Inflight Services and Instructor for the ‘likkle but tallawah’ carrier which aims to maintain its “one team, one dream” identity.
When the curtains came down on Jamaica’s flagship carrier, Air Jamaica, many hearts were broken and tears shed; that cherished piece of Jamaica would no longer fly.
Along came Captain Paul Ronald Reece with his long held dream of starting an international operation within the Americas. In 1984 Captain Reece and his wife Roxanne started Wings Aviation Ltd in Guyana. Wings Aviation celebrated 32 years in business earlier this year. Capt. Reece has been flying since 1978 and is qualified on numerous small and medium sized Cessna aircraft, Mitsubishi MU2, the Robinson R22, Hughes 500, Bell 212 & Bell 214 helicopters, the Boeing 707, Boeing 757-200, & the Boeing 767-300 ER.
For Fly Jamaica Airways Capt. and Mrs. Reece partnered to provide the financial capital and seventy combined years of administrative, management & technical aviation experience to realise ‘the dream’.
The stage was set for Fly Jamaica to debut its Boeing 757-200 for the inaugural flight on February 14, 2013. The top of the line aircraft boasts a Rolls-Royce engine and seating capacity of 198. Later in 2014, the airline added its Boeing 767-300 ER carrier with 246 seats. Thanks to ‘the team’, a little piece of Jamaica flies again.
Between 2011, the year the company was registered and 2013, the year Fly Jamaica Airways commenced flying, the airline employed over 145 Jamaicans. Today Fly Jamaica employs over 300 staff internationally.
Fly Jamaica also provides additional services which include Cargo and Charters. Fly Jamaica Airways Cargo commenced operations in June 2015 with a shipment of birds into New York.The business has grown consistently to the extent where in less than one (1) year it has become the leading cargo carrier from Kingston Jamaica, and Georgetown Guyana, into Canada and the USA among passenger-carrying commercial airlines operating in the region. Fly Jamaica offers a convenient, reliable and efficient cargo service and very competitive rates in the industry.
Fly Jamaica Airways commenced its charter operations in 2015, with its first flight to Cuba. Since then the airline has successfully conducted charters to Nassau, Costa Rica, Santiago de Cuba and Haiti.
With plans for future growth and expansion, the airline invites everyone to experience its reliable first class service in the air. All Fly Jamaica passengers “can enjoy the down to earth, ‘no highty-tighty’ energy from the crew and feel at home,” stated Love. “Local food and products are offered inflight. We take great care of everyone, especially our seniors and unaccompanied minors. Our flight attendants tun up!”
To continue reading, purchase Vol.8 #8, 2016 Issue.
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