Owen Roberts International Airport in August 1968 following the purchase of 51% of Cayman Brac Airways by the Cayman Islands Government from LACSA, an air carrier based in Costa Rica. The first aircraft type operated by Cayman Airways was a Douglas DC-3. International service was initially operated to Miami with a leased Douglas DC-6 propliner and the first jet operations were flown between the airport and Kingston, Jamaica with a British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven leased from LACSA. In 1972, the airline was operating its own stretched BAC One-Eleven series 500 jets on nonstop flights to Miami and Kingston as well as operating Douglas
Airline Tycoon (as it can in single-player mode) for longer games. The original game was released in August 1998 in Germany. It was not released in any English-speaking country; however, there was an official English demo. The first Airline Tycoon title to be released in United States and the United Kingdom was "Airline Tycoon First Class". It was published in 2001 by Monte Cristo; however, the publisher decided to remove "First Class" subtitle from the game box and manuals, though it remained in-game. Features added in First Class include ten brand new missions, multiplayer mode with up to 4 players, new MIDI