Travellers interested in flying Antigua Airways to the Motherland, Africa, will have to wait a bit longer as there is still no definitive date when commercial flights will begin.
During the Post-Cabinet Press Briefing yesterday, Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister’s Office, Ambassador Lionel “Max” Hurst explained that the airline’s operators are still awaiting approval for the Air Operator Permit (AOP) that will allow them to commence offering commercial flights.
Efforts are, however, being made to ensure that the airline meets the strict requirements needed to receive the green-light.
“The problem has been that although submissions have taken place, the issuing authority here, the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation, requires far more information for it to issue
the licence.
At least this is what we have been told bythe ECCA.
“It looks as though Antigua Airways is moving towards meeting those guidelines so that ECCA can in fact issue the licence so that it can become a regular carrier,” Hurst explained.
Antigua Airways is a privately owned company whose Nigerian investors enjoy the full support of the government of Antigua and Barbuda.
Once fully operational, the airline which was launched earlier this year will provide the twin island nation’s first direct air connection to West Africa.
Antigua and Barbuda is a shareholder in the company and will receive 20 percent of the profits generated by the airline.
The newly established airline’s first flight to the country was a charter which landed at the V. C. Bird International Airport on Independence Day.
Over 100 passengers were on board, including the Chief Executive Officer of Euro Atlantic Airways, Eugenio Fernandes, whose company is a partner in the enterprise, and Founding President of the Nigeria Antigua and Barbuda Chamber of Commerce, Emmanuel Samson.
SOURCE: POINTE XPRESS
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We’re standing with you Antigua Airways.
Get it done.
@ Iman
Bro, you will be standing for a long time because it ain’t going to happen.
Just another one of Gaston’s failed projects
Small minded people could never see where this can take Antigua and Barbuda. Major connections
Big up all who’s involved
What happened to the 100 passengers on that first flight? Are they still in Antigua, or have they hooked up with the people smuggling rings into the U S.
With Gaston Browne involved the impossible can become the possible. He has it done with the banks; he has done it with LIAT; he has done it on the international stage, so with Antigua Airways I am sure he can make things happen… It is great leadership that matters.
Yes he has done it before. All the crooked people he has entered into business with who have to pay bribes and nothing happens. Antigua Airways is just another flop as honest investors won’t deal with this man. It is always, “what is in it for me”.
Gaston and his ” Merry Band of Crooks”:
Peter Virdie
Saab Moran
Xiao Jianhua
the crypto currency man- Samuel Bankman-Freid from FTX
I thought that Max Fernandez told us the next flight was due to take place on December 4.
Max Hurst made up that reason on the spur of the moment! He so lie!
Barbados courting Ethiopian airwaves. Gaston courting Magic Mike, the printer.
Say what? Sandals courting American Airlines!
It will fail like all the rest of his big schemes.
This would be a joke, except it is wasting the peoples’ money.
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