InterCaribbean Airways says it has added two aircraft to its fleet and an expanded flight schedule to service Dominica and other Caribbean islands.
The other islands are Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent & The Grenadines beginning March 12, 2023.
The introduction of this aircraft increases InterCaribbean’ s fleet to five aircraft servicing the Barbados and Windward Islands’ routes.
The company says that with this expanded fleet, InterCaribbean now offers travelers enhanced schedule options and improved intra-regional travel with greater connectivity among the Islands.
The extended schedule now links the Eastern and Western Caribbean with a twice-weekly service from Georgetown and Barbados via Antigua to Turks and Caicos, connecting onwards to Nassau, Bahamas, Havana, Cuba, and Kingston, Jamaica.
According to Founder and Chairman of interCaribbean Airways, Lyndon Gardiner, his company is expanding its services in the Eastern Islands of the Caribbean, where travelers have been affected by the air travel void left during the pandemic.
“It is a privilege to serve these Islands and we will continue to work to demonstrate ourselves equal to that privilege and trust with dedication to safety, and creating an overall satisfying experience for all our passengers, we look forward to announcing more exciting news and destinations during this year,” he added.
Those who never heard of the Pan-american Highway read this:
Pan-American Highway, network of highways connecting North America and South America. Originally conceived in 1923 as a single route, the road grew to include a great number of designated highways in participating countries. The whole system, extending from Alaska and Canada to Chile, Brazil, and the southern tip of Argentina, totals nearly 30,600 km (19,000 miles). The Inter-American Highway, from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to Panama City (5,390 km [3,350 miles]), is a part of it.
In 1937 Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and the United States signed the Convention on the Pan-American Highway, whereby they agreed to achieve speedy construction of their respective sections of the highway. The Mexican section, the first Latin American section to be completed, was built and financed entirely by Mexico, while the sections through many of th
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The Mexican section, the first Latin American section to be completed, was built and financed entirely by Mexico, while the sections through many of the Central American countries were built with U.S. assistance.
The Pan-American Highway is nearly continuous, with the major exception of the Darién Gap, the overland route that stretches about 100 km (60 miles) between Panama and Colombia. The environmentally sensitive rainforests and marshlands of the Darién Gap are home to a number of Indigenous peoples who have long opposed any plans to continue construction of the highway, and there are concerns about facilitating drug trafficking and illegal immigration should the road be continued. The treacherous, inhospitable terrain is extremely dangerous to travelers, who are also vulnerable to kidnapping or other violence by guerrillas, drug traffickers, and smugglers. Those seeking to travel the length of the Americas on the Pan-American Highway typically bypass the Gap by boat or p
“The other islands are Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent & The Grenadines”
One of the places they hope to serve is not an island!
Guyana is not surrounded by water; therefore, it cannot be an island. Guyana is geographically located on the mainland of South America, under normal circumstances one can walk, or drive a motor vehicle from the Guyana across all of South America, and into North America (Mexico the United States, and into Canada).
The proposed Pan American Highway was supposed to accommodate that!
Gaston Browne wants to force LIAT down the throats of the other Caribbean island. What he and the other Caribbean leaders need to do, is eliminate all those taxes and fees from the price of airline tickets and let the private sector provide that service.
Given the financial disaster that is LIAT, one cannot make a case for dumping more money into this bottomless pit.
But it would be asking too much to expect these leaders to do something that is contrary to how they have operated in the past.
Countries like Dominica cannot possibly say they need the cash from these fees because very few regional flight operate within the region. So they are not realizing much revenue from ticket sales anyway.
Zandoli LIAT has always operated at a loss, from its very inception. Dominica was a shareholder even when Eugina Charles was Dominica’s prime minister. She discovered that LIAT was a nonprofitable sinking ship, and eventually sold Dominica share and pulled out of this thing.
You see one of LIAT’s delima is that the work force has been too large, if a company employs ten thousand people and the revenue raised is not enough to pay the employes, in the case of LIAT they will not have enough for maintenance.
If you have two flying aircrafts, and you have about forty or fifty, pilots, and other crew that is a finical burden. It seems to me that they employ by quoter, a certain number of Dominicans mut be employed, same for all the other Shareholders.
That was the protocol when LIAT was set up around1958, way back then it operated as a none profit organization.
In 1962, they paid a pilot less than five hundred dollars per month, these days a brook dog would not fly for that.
They should also work on improving the quality of their service. I will never choose this airline when travelling unless I hear that they have improved the quality of their service. Pure crap!
Well, I’m not surprised. Nothing good enough for Putin.
Maybe he is a Russian, with a name like that who knows?
InterCarribean Airways apparently acquired two ATR turboprops, a 20 yr. old ATR72-500 and a 16 yr.old ATR42-500. Deliveries foreseen this month and April respectively. Still no direct service between Dominica and Antigua.
Thanks to God
I flew on them from barbados and they are very comfortable
Much better than liat
Liat is dead definitely no coming back
We suffer to much
You sound like u glad Liat dead…..I wonder where you are from
Great news now get the prices as cheap as possible,like Ryan Air and easyjet in Europe. These two airlines are always full because the prices are low and this creates much more movement. At the moment there is little if any inter island movement. But if the price was say $30 to fly from one Caribbean island 🏝 to Dominica 🇩🇲 you would see lots of people visiting Dominica for weekend trips etc.
Dedits, you are right on Qué just last month I was looking prices on easyJet from Spain to London just about 20 euros and that is approximately 1000 miles apart, but in high season fares obviously will be higher.
Mr. Man Dog, whereas you approximate the mileage; it all depends where you are leaving from in England or Spain.
Note: the distance is 1,104 miles or 1,777 km from Spain to London, which takes about 17 hours, 49 minutes to drive.
The calculation of flight time is based on the straight line distance from Barcelona, Spain to London, United Kingdom; which is about 708 miles or 1, 139 kilometers, if your trip begins in Barcelona, Spain, and ends in London.
And do what at the weekend in dominica because the taxi fare from the airport is very expensive.
Stay where you are my friend, it you cannot afford a taxi fare how the hell you going to enjoy yourself in Dominica 😚😚😚
And how about that departure tax when you leaving. Not cheap to visit my home country is it. They really make you feel welcome, don’t you think.
Dont forget the $ 200 ec taxi fare from the airport to roseau.
You know, I have always wondered why there is no regular bus service from the airport to town. That would make sense, wouldn’t it. Maybe it is to protect those outrageous “taxi” fares. That is a monopoly because I understand you can not be a taxi operator at the airport if you are not a member of their brotherhood. Man, that is a racket, a protected racket. Dominica can never advance like this.
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that should have read, “and do what at the weekend in dominica? it doh have nothing to do “