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LIAT 2020 to Double Workforce and Boost Antigua’s Aviation Hub Role
Tourism Minister Charles Fernandez says LIAT 2020 is on track to double its Antigua and Barbuda workforce to 200 by year-end as the airline ramps up operations and introduces new jets.
Speaking in Parliament this week, Fernandez highlighted that 80 of LIAT’s current 95 employees are Antiguans, with the rest from across the Caribbean, the UK, and Ethiopia.
He noted that the airline’s engineering team is made up entirely of Antiguans.
Responding to a question from Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle, the minister said LIAT’s expansion could create up to 300 additional indirect jobs regionally.
Six Antiguan pilots are currently in training to fly the new jets, with four nearing completion.
Fernandez called LIAT 2020 a vital locally run airline and reaffirmed Antigua’s strategic position in regional aviation.
He also reported strong tourism growth, with March 2025 setting a new monthly air arrivals record and first-quarter arrivals up 7.5% over 2019.
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So of the other 15 all of the Africans work in the main office?
Bout time dem start hire more people—plenty folks outta work still.
Doubling the workforce sounds ambitious. Is the demand there to match?
A just want LIAT fly pon time and na mash up me suitcase again.
This could open doors for young people trying to get into aviation. NICE!!!
If this includes better training and staff development, even better.
If this includes better training and staff development, even better.
Locally run yes,but where is all the profit going to, with the foolish 70/30 shareholder deal that Gatson struck with his Nigerian friend?
No profit is coming to Antigua and the tax payers for the next 30 years with this deal, and that’s if Lait even last that long, with so many that can’t afford a flight to the neighboring islands that are a stone throw away from Antigua.
Wasn’t it reported that many of these inter Caribbean airfares have taxes that are hire than the price of the flight itself?
So all that taxes going straight into the Hands of the Air Peace CEO.
I back connectivity between islands of court, but the many corrupt governments in the Caribbean need to work on burdensome taxes that are levied on the citizens.
How many normal working people can afford a nice vacay to one of their neighbors, and stay in a nice little hotel and enjoy themselves?
Not a lot, and that’s a damn shame, as hard as island people work day and night to support their families.
Where is our blessings? Where is the working man’s repreive?
For a finance minister, Gatson Browne is a terribly negotiator.
This is a strange article because there is no demand for this version of LIAT.
Majority of the flights being operated are either empty or they have more crew the passengers.
Max must know something that observers do not know.