Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he remains optimistic that the new inter-regional airline, LIAT 2020 will begin servicing the routes in the Caribbean within the next two months.
Mr. Browne, who is attending the 46th regular meeting of CARICOM leaders in Guyana said that “significant progress” has been made towards the launch of the airline that is being formed in partnership with Air Peace, a private Nigerian airline founded in 2013.
The new airline will replace LIAT (1974) Limited that was first established in Montserrat in 1956, but folded last month following increased debt and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was owned by the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
