Tourism authorities are looking to move swiftly to get additional airlift into Barbados with the departure of Eurowings from the domestic market.Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) Dr Jens Thraenhart said Barbados and other countries in the region are faced with the reality that the German airline has cancelled all its Caribbean flights.As Thraenhart broke the news to tourism stakeholders who attended today’s 35th Annual General Meeting of the Tourism Development Corporation (TDC) at the Radisson Aquatica Resort, he said Eurowings reassigned the planes that were scheduled to come to the region, to North America which he said is a more profitable route.“That was communicated to us just last week. So this is obviously short-term. It’s very hard to kind of work with that. But that’s the situation that we are in. We are working on trying to make something happen. I mean obviously, we have directors in our core markets in the UK [United Kingdom] and in Europe, Canada, US [United States] and in the Caribbean.“We have daily calls with airlines. I have a call actually today with a German airline. We are looking to try to save this lost flight we got from Eurowings. We are working daily, we have two top aviation consultants who are working with us. It is a priority,” Thraenhart said.
