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a new leisure market airline has come up with an innovative pitch to try and win over consumers who are looking to visit the caribbean phillipo joins us right now with more what's the pitch phil well
Phil LeBeau (Business News Reporter) 00:14.550
the pitch is that if you're going to be flying on anguilla air which is a subsidiary of bermuda air which is just launching service you might be able to have a little more elbow room when you're flying on one of the embraer jets down to the island of anguilla some people might
Phil LeBeau (Business News Reporter) 00:27.990
be listening to this report or watching this report and saying anguilla where is anguilla it is a british territory it's an island that is just to the east of puerto rico and bermuda air is starting anguilla air and anguilla air which begins service this week today actually out
Phil LeBeau (Business News Reporter) 00:45.150
of newark direct from boston baltimore and newark will be flying ember airplanes with no middle seats so you get a little more elbow room for a flight and while that may not sound like a big deal believe me there are a number of people i've talked with who have said yeah i would
Phil LeBeau (Business News Reporter) 01:00.230
prefer if i didn't have to sit in a middle seat or next to somebody in a middle seat and as i mentioned flights from newark start today is there a market for anguilla here's the CEO of bermuda air they're
Adam Scott (CEO) 01:13.680
different islands they offer something that that is unique and and and special and so i think that you know very frankly we're confident that that we can we can get people on board and that we can we can show them what we're about as a as an airline but also of course the
Adam Scott (CEO) 01:30.040
islands they sell themselves it also
Phil LeBeau (Business News Reporter) 01:33.500
helps offset the seasonality that bermuda air is primarily attracting travelers in the summer and in the fall winter not so much that'll flip here with anguilla air by the way flights to caribbean from the US flat this year versus last year but compared to twenty nineteen up
Phil LeBeau (Business News Reporter) 01:50.020
almost twenty percent and anguilla has become one of these little gems that people are starting to discover the number of people going there up a hundred and ninety eight percent since twenty nineteen bottom line is this guys the caribbean has quietly but steadily become a
Phil LeBeau (Business News Reporter) 02:07.030
bigger and bigger destination for americans looking to travel internationally it's always been a hot spot to a certain extent now you're starting to see it span a little bit further with new destinations smaller islands within the caribbean