LIAT wishes to advise customers travelling to/from Dominica and/or St. Vincent of the possibility of cancelled flights and delayed baggage due to seasonal high winds in both countries.
The company’s aircraft have tailwind limitations, which are set by the manufacturers during the certification process and they are therefore not permitted to take off or land when the prevailing winds are beyond these limits.
The departure out of E. T. Joshua Airport and the night landings into Douglas-Charles Airport are affected by tailwinds and therefore the decision to cancel flights is taken in the interest of safety.
LIAT is also forced to restrict the number of bags on the aircraft at this time of the year when wind conditions in both Dominica and St. Vincent restrict the take-off weight of the company’s aircraft.
The current conditions are forecast to continue through to the month of April.
The company’s Reservations and Airport personnel are ready to assist customers who have been affected by cancellations and baggage issues due to airport limitations at this time of the year.
Thanks LIAT MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
Will Liat never get it right, in the 21st century they are buying planes with so much limitation when they are quite aware of the islands that they are servicing. After plying in the Caribbean for over 50years, Liat should know the weather patterns like the back of their hands, silly decisions as usual and at the end the customers always suffer with no compensation from that terrible customer service airline.
Can you get it right and tell LIAT thanks for the advisory? Can you have respect for an act of GOD and human limitations? You are soo lame in your response. Sometimes i wonder if Dominicans have sense to know how to respond to certain advisories. I know for sure that LIAT operates better than where you work and is more organised.
truth be told the pilots of Liat would rather not fly into Melville Hall, despite the night landing facilities.
I do appreciate the limitations of Melville Hall (DOM) imposed on LIAT pilots. However, the tailwind restriction only applies with a landing approach from the sea, normally only required at hours of darkness (night time). The last scheduled LIAT flight into the airport is the daily LI523 at 1.50 hrs. on Mo/We/Fr (from ANU direct) and 18.30 hrs. on Tu/Sa/Su (from ANU via PTP). If the flight arrives on time it will land during day light hours so the airline’s comment really only applies when they are late.
wHY YOU THINK MAKES IT LATE? If you are soo in contact with the throne room, tell God to create favourable conditions for LIAT to operate and flat land on Dominica for a longer Runway. Dominicans are impossible. LIAT is trying hard to please the region but when you don’t know you just don’t know.
So why change the entire fleet to planes that have more limitations than the dash-8?
The Dash-8’s would have similar limitations. Besides, they are so old now that LIAT has problems offloading them, causing a further cash drain on their meager resources.
Because these Dash 8’s are not being manufactured anymore and the new Dash8’s will not be able to operate into DOM. and SVD.
Wise decision LIAT. Safety first. Precaution is better than cure. At least you are informing passengers about this situation that they will not be disappointed and angry when their flight is delayed.
A few friends will be traveling next week to D/ca for a family funeral. I hope the winds subside at that time. However, I will inform them of it. Thank you DNO for posting this information.
Skerrit, for God’s ake man why didn’t you invest in a high speed ferry to Antigua instead? We would not even have to make all the investment ourselves but arrange with the French to extend their service from Point a Pitre to St. John. I don’t mind a ferry journey rather than miss my flight, miss my luggage and have to pay for a hotel, or extra taxi rides in Dominica. Honestly, it often takes us two days of misery to depart from here or arrive here anyway.
Don’t make much sense, the seas around Domionica are rough. I wanna reach there in no time. LIAT all the way