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Jamaica: Air Mail

First Services
Caribbean Airways

The Jamaican mail contract was awarded to Caribbean Airways.
It was a token gesture to have a British Company fly the first outbound mails.
This was the only mail flight by Caribbean Airways.
Caribbean Airways sub-contracted the service to Pan Am immediately afterwards.

Kingston (10 Dec 1930) to Cardenas, Cuba (10 Dec 1930) by Caribbean Airways
336 letters were dispatched for Cuba. These were taken from the mail which had already been scheduled to go by the Pan Am
flight and bore the special Jamaica – Miami First Flight cachet.

Backstamped at Santiago de Cuba with cds of 10 Dec 1930, 1.30pm (which identifies this as the Caribbean Airways flight).
Cardenas 12 Dec receiving mark.

Left to right: The plane was a Fairchild amphibian G-CAHL.
Governor of Jamaica – Sir Edward Stubbs The aircraft left the Caribbean Airways sea base at 9.30am and
Pilot – Capt Holland took 2 hours 30 minutes to travel the 180 miles (due to headwinds).
Postmaster-General of Jamaica – RH Fletcher. There was no mail carried on the return flight the next day.