{"id":5708,"date":"2017-09-11T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T09:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2017\/09\/11\/hurricane-irma-brings-destruction-to-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T09:07:24","slug":"hurricane-irma-brings-destruction-to-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=5708","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma brings destruction to Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"

wtten-Antigua, with a population of 80,000, escaped major damage, with no loss of life. Officials in the French territory of St Martin say it is almost destroyed and Anguilla was also caught in the storm.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Officials have confirmed at least eight deaths and considerable damage in the French territories of St-Martin and Saint Barth\u00e9lemy, (St Barts).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the US territory of Puerto Rico, through which Hurricane Irma has been passing, more than half the island\u2019s three million residents are without power.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A state of emergency had been declared for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Officials started evacuations of tourists and residents of Florida Keys.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Flights to and from several airports in Florida were being suspended, the BBC report said, while Orlando\u2019s international airport said that commercial flights would stop from 17:00 local time on Saturday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The grade 5 hurricane, which is \u2013 the highest possible \u2013 continues through the Caribbean. It has brought wind speeds of 295km\/h (185mph) and could hit Florida on Sunday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Air Canada operates 24 extra flights for customers impacted by Hurricane Irma<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In response to Hurricane Irma, Air Canada is operating a total of 24 additional flights to bring customers home early from the Dominican Republic (Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Samana), Florida (Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Orlando), Cuba (Varadero, Holguin, Havana and Cayo Coco), Antigua and Providenciales, as well as larger aircraft with more seats for flights from the region, including Havana and Nassau.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

With these additional flights and larger aircraft, the airline will have flown over 6,000 seats northbound in addition to its regular schedule over the three-day period from Tuesday September 5 to Thursday September 7.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, it has implemented a goodwill policy for customers whose itinerary includes a flight impacted by the path of the hurricane.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

For customers whose travel is affected, they can contact Air Canada Reservations to change flights free of char<\/span><\/strong>ge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

wtten-Antigua, with a population of 80,000, escaped major damage, with no loss of life. Officials in the French territory of St Martin say it is almost destroyed and Anguilla was also caught in the storm. Officials have confirmed at least eight deaths and considerable damage in the French territories of St-Martin and Saint Barth\u00e9lemy, (St […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category---tourist-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}