{"id":320439,"date":"2024-04-15T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=320439"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:41:07","slug":"liat-2020-start-up-delayed-due-to-faulty-landing-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/liat-2020-start-up-delayed-due-to-faulty-landing-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"LIAT 2020 start-up delayed due to faulty landing gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319526\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LIAT-Landing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the test flights conducted last week, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, confirmed that LIAT 2020 encountered issues with its landing gear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The airline had to replace its faulty landing gear to meet the requirements necessary for obtaining the Air Operator\u2019s Certificate (AOC).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has since acquired the necessary equipment, and once the landing gear parts are installed, the test flights will continue this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, the Antiguan and Barbudan government has placed USD$12.1 million in an escrow account to buy two additional planes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister confirmed that the proceeds are available to purchase the planes, but they need to be refurbished with new landing gears to be airworthy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LIAT 2020 is a new airline established after the dissolution of LIAT 1974, which faced financial challenges accelerated by the Covid pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Antiguan and Barbudan government is striving to revive the carrier, citing its importance to regional connectivity. The new airline is a partnership between the government and Nigerian airline Air Peace, which owns 70 percent of shares in the new entity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Air Peace is expected to provide at least three planes in the initial phase, with plans to open an air route to Nigeria.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) plays a crucial role in ensuring aviation-related matters in the Eastern Caribbean are handled appropriately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0All airlines operating in the region must obtain an AOC before starting regular scheduled flights.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the test flights conducted last week, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, confirmed that LIAT 2020 encountered issues with its landing gear.\u00a0 The airline had to replace its faulty landing gear to meet the requirements necessary&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":319526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[272,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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