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Source- Real News Antigua:<\/strong> Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle is not convinced that the new carrier LIAT 2020 is more than a pie-in-the-sky promise.<\/p>

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The Gaston Browne Administration has announced that it will be partnering with the Nigerian airline Air Peace to establish the operations of a successor to LIAT.<\/p>\n

The Nigerian airline is expected to hold a 70 percent stake in the new carrier.<\/p>

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However, Pringle says that information about this joint venture between Air Peace and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda has been lacking.<\/p>

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Accordingly, the Opposition \u2013 like the public \u2013 is waiting to learn the details of the agreement and how LIAT\u2019s operations will be taken over.<\/p>\n

According to Prime Minister Gaston Browne, other Caribbean islands have expressed an interest in being a part of this new airline, similar to their arrangements with LIAT (1974) Ltd.<\/p>

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How this will work, and how the remaining 30 percent in shares would be divided, remains unclear, however. Hence, Pringle believes that this purported interest in the new LIAT 2020 is just \u201ctalk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source- Real News Antigua: Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle is not convinced that the new carrier LIAT 2020 is more than a pie-in-the-sky promise. The Gaston Browne Administration has announced that it will be partnering with the Nigerian airline Air Peace to establish the operations of a successor to LIAT. 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