BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – Additional routes are likely to be on the cards for regional airline LIAT. Speaking recently at the signing of the loan agreements between LIAT, the Caribbean Development Bank and the stakeholder governments of LIAT, Chairman of the Shareholder Governments and Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, said that the aircraft being purchased to upgrade the fleet, would allow the airline to go to other destinations within the region. This, he explained, would add to the 22 routes they presently service and increase the number of flights the airline undertakes per week, which currently stands at close to 1000. “We are looking at possibly to go to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, Haiti is another destination, and we can go to Jamaica… and we have to look for strategic partners. We have to look for strategic partners so we can expand also with a jet service to Central America, we can go to Fort Lauderdale,” he said.
