By: Caribbean World News Wednesday March 10,

Air Jamaica yesterday effectively ended its services to the Orlando International Airport in Florida.

The move comes on the heels of Saturday, March 5th conclusion of service to Grenada as the Jamaica-owned carrier works vigorously to scale back service across its network ahead of the tentative sale to Caribbean Airlines.

Air Jamaica started service at OIA in 1990, and operated four flights a week from the airport.

The airline is also set to suspend service from Jamaica to Chicago, Curacao, Havana, Cuba and Nassau, Bahamas on April 12th, the day when the sale of CAL should be final.

By the middle of next month, Air Jamaica will operate 161 weekly flights between Jamaica and five cities with six aircraft, down from nine.

The moves come as unions representing the airline`s workers say management breached the country`s labor laws when it announced last week that staff cuts would occur on April 12th.

Granville Valentine, Vice President of the National Workers Union, was quoted by Radio Jamaica as saying the airline failed to inform the unions of the redundancy exercise as is required by law.

The unions have already warned that there will be trouble if redundancy benefits are not paid on the date that the staff cuts are carried out.