The vexing issue of affordable and reliable intra-regional travel will be the focus of attention when the new LIAT CEO, Captain Ian Brunton, makes his maiden appearance at the region’s premier tourism gathering next week.

Queen’s Counsel (QC) Anthony Astaphan has defended the decision of the Government of Dominica to invest $8 million into the cash-strapped regional carrier LIAT

Deputy chairman of the Barbuda Council Fabian Jones said the time is nigh for authorities to give very serious consideration to a merge of LIAT and SVG Air.

Management of regional airline LIAT says a meeting scheduled for today with the carrier’s unions is on, but one of the lead trade unionists Chester Humphrey

LIAT’s top management has said it remains dedicated to reaching a suitable settlement with its pilots on a number of outstanding issues, including a pension fund.

Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and the leaders of the other two shareholder governments of LIAT will meet in Barbados on Thursday to “review a series of issues confronting the carrier.”

LIAT has been forced to cancel several flights for yet another day, as talks regarding an industrial dispute with its Grenada employees ended in a stalemate yesterday.

LIAT has not ruled out the possibility of expanding into Latin and North American markets, even as the airline’s management considers acquiring 100-passenger seat jets that will facilitate such flights.

Workers at LIAT’s ticketing office in Antigua & Barbuda will be among dozens across the region out of work soon, now that the unions have agreed

Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, John Maginley, has responded to recent comments by his St Lucian counterpart, Allen Chastanet, about the regional airline LIAT.