Rebranded LIAT 2020 (Leeward Islands Air Transport) is about to boost its regional connectivity by launching flights to 11 new locations, together with Guyana, starting in September 2024.
This important enlargement goals to offer vacationers with larger entry throughout the Caribbean, catering to each enterprise and leisure markets.
CEO Hafsaf Abdulsalam introduced on Tuesday that flights shall be launched to 5 extra islands after serving Antigua for a while, together with St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
“We are going to increase additional into bigger Caribbean territories within the south, including 11 new locations in September,” Abdulsalam defined. The enlargement will embrace Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, and the airline plans to develop its fleet.
“By the tip of 12 months one, we intention to introduce our new technology E2 195 narrow-body plane, a 128-seater. This may permit us to increase flights to Panama and, hopefully, with ECCA’s Cat 1 standing, to Miami, Puerto Rico, and the British Virgin Islands,” Abdulsalam mentioned.
The CEO additionally emphasised that whereas ticket costs will stay aggressive and inexpensive, the airline goals to be sustainable and worthwhile. They’re searching for exemptions from different governments to learn vacationers.
The newly shaped LIAT 2020 made its inaugural flight to St. Lucia in August, signalling the return to the skies of the inter-regional airline.
