Caribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) has retired its fleet of ageing B737-800s and replaced it with a modern jet fleet of nine B737-8s MAX, with one more of the type due for delivery.
CAL's last B737-800, the 21-year-old 9Y-ANU (msn 28235), operated its final commercial flight from Orlando International to Port of Spain on July 1, 2022, according to Flightradar24 ADS-B data.
CAL spokesperson Dionne Ligoure confirmed: “The B737-800 NGs, which have served us faithfully and well over the years, will no longer be operating scheduled services,” she told The Guardian newspaper in Trinidad & Tobago. According to the ch-aviation fleets module, the airline’s last four B737-800s – 9Y-ANU, 9Y-GEO (msn 28225), 9Y-JMF (msn 30730), and 9Y-MBJ (msn 33980) – remain stored at Port of Spain. They are to be returned to lessors Carlyle Aviation Partners, AerCap, and Thunderbolt Aircraft Lease, respectively.
Some of the B787-800s were taken over from BWIA West Indies Airways (Port of Spain), which went out of business in 2006.
CAL started phasing out the ageing B737-800 fleet in 2018. The first B737-8 MAX was due to arrive in 2019, but delivery was delayed until January 2022 through a combination of the B737 MAX groundings, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
It also operates seven ATR72-600s.
