United Caribbean

United Caribbean (BQ, USM, IslandAir: ISL, LIAT: LIA) is a subsidiary airline owned and operated by United American Airways. United Caribbean is the largest Caribbean airline. The airline is based in Miami, Florida. The airline was pronounced flag carrier of the Caribbean after being the largest and longest living Caribbean airline in GeoFS

History
United Caribbean was founded as Northwest Caribbean Airlines in late April 2019 serving most of the northern Caribbean including Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands and Sint Maarten. The airline was re-branded as United Caribbean in September 2019 when the whole airline was revamped and rebranded.

IslandAir
IslandAir, based at Saint Martin, was implemented as a short hop airline. Leeward Island Air Transport started flying on 30 November 2019 as an extension of IslandAir.

Hubs
Miami - Primary Hub and Current Base of Operations for United Caribbean

Grenada - Secondary Hub for United Caribbean, acquired after a joint venture with the now-defunct Air Grenada

Nassau - Tertiary Hub and part of United Caribbean’s “Gateway to America” expansion project. Newer Head Office was destroyed in a war

Focus Cities
Phillipsburg - United Caribbean’s mid-Caribbean focus city

New York - (LaGuardia and JFK) United Caribbean’s first American focus city

CaribbeanConnect
IslandAir, based at Saint Martin, was implemented as a short hop airline. Leeward Island Air Transport started flying on 30 November 2019 as an extension of IslandAir.

Reformation
Announced on July 23, 2020, Islandair is going through a slight reformation which includes modernization, and a rebrand.

Rebrand (Stage 1)
The rebrand includes a new logo and name. The new name is still in progress, the possible names are listed below.

COMPLETED

Aircraft (Stage 2)
The aircraft portion of the reformation is modernizing the fleet with newer ATR 72s, SAAB 340B and second-hand bought BAe 146s replacing the older DHC-6-Twin Otter, EMB-120s and Q300s.

COMPLETED

Operations
The operations portion of the reform is the following points
 * Moving bases to the smaller Basseterre in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
 * Hub in Sint Maarten will remain until Basseterre’s Airport opens
 * The same routes will apply with new flights to Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St.Lucia, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, and Puerto Rico.
 * The end of contract flights from LIAT and Seabourne Airlines, with Islandair acquiring the 7 ATR 72s and 5 SAAB 340Bs operating

Joint Venture
On 29 January 2020, United Caribbean had a joint venture with the other Caribbean subsidiary Air Grenada, thus opening up a new Caribbean hub for United Caribbean to access the south Caribbean and South America

Codeshares
United Caribbean has one codeshare with WindJet. WindJet is a subsidiary airline of Linee Aeree Calabre. The codeshare has WindJet's WJE code applied to flights between Havana and Miami.