Just a week after its inaugural flight to New York, Dynamic Airways has been hit with another glitch, this time with over 60 passengers who were up to press time “stranded” at the Miami International Airport in the US.

A few of the stranded passengers yesterday at the Miami Int’l Airport

Kaieteur News understands that at least two passengers have health problems. Their medication was locked in their luggage which they were not being allowed to retrieve. There was also a pregnant woman and young child among the passengers. Kaieteur News was told that the flight which departed yesterday morning around 02:00hrs had been delayed in Guyana for about two hours. One airport staffer recalled that there was a “hiccup” with the names on the manifest. After the issue with the names was clarified, the flight departed. According to passengers who called into Kaieteur News yesterday, they left Georgetown with the impression that they were heading straight to New York. However during the flight, passengers said that they were stopping in Miami to “refuel”. After landing in Miami, passengers said that they were told that they needed to exit the plane and go through Customs. The passengers did so and ended up at the Insel counter. One passenger told Kaieteur News that Flight Attendants at the Insel counter assisted them and handed out food vouchers. All this happened before 07:00hrs on Friday. As time elapsed, passengers became more flustered and demanded an explanation. By this time crew members had begun leaving the airport, because their duty time had expired. When contacted yesterday General Manager for Roraima Airways, the local partner for Dynamic Airways, Captain Gerry Gouveia, said that the incident was nothing less than “unfortunate”.  Contrary to what passengers told Kaieteur News, Gouveia said that they well aware that they would have been taken to Miami. Gouveia added that the July 4, national holiday in the US did not make issues easy, since that also contributed to the system being “clogged”. Earlier this week it was reported that Dynamic Airways, could not operate flights out of John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport. The airline is still selling tickets to passengers flying to New York. Dynamic Airways, in a release last week, said that it was denied clearance by airport authorities to operate out of JFK after some ‘technical difficulties’ arose. Passengers arriving from Guyana told Kaieteur News they were shuttled by bus from Connecticut to JFK, New York, which is a three-hour drive. Dynamic is no stranger to Guyana, working before with bankrupt EZjet Airways. The US plane company fell out with EZjet over payments. Dynamic says that it is under new management. The Ministry of Tourism had endorsed Dynamic Airways when it held the launch last month. Within a relatively short period of time, the airline was able to attain its operating permit. At the launch President Donald Ramotar had welcomed the new initiative and wished the partnership huge success. He said that tourism is increasingly becoming a huge factor in economic growth and an increase in airlines would see an increase in competition which is positive for development. He had also focused on the country being able to retain “tourist dollars,” pointing out that in some countries eighty to ninety dollars spent by every tourist is lost