It operates scheduled and charter services in the West Indies, as well as transatlantic flights based at Paris Orly Airport in Metropolitan France.

The airline was originally established as Société Caribéenne de Transports Aériens, and started operations in September 1994.

[3] The transatlantic services were operated under a franchise agreement by Air Caraïbes Atlantique, a jointly run subsidiary airline of Groupe Dubreuil, which was registered in Martinique with its own air operator's certificate, using an ICAO airline designator of "CAJ" and callsign of "CAR LINE".

[21] Previously, Air Caraïbes also had codeshare agreements with Aigle Azur until the airline ceased operations in September 2019, and with Corsair International until 26 October 2019.

It does not include aircraft types that were retired by its predecessor airlines prior to being merged to form Air Caraïbes.