Caribbean routes under threat
Caribbean airline LIAT is to axe services over the next three months in a last-ditch cost-cutting exercise.
The Antigua-based inter-island carrier warned the cuts are necessary if the airline is to continue.
Board chairman Dr Jean Holder said: "We’ll have to take a very hard look at our current schedules and the profitability of our current routes.
"We have brought in some experts to assist us in looking more deeply into the route analysis issues, but it is clear that LIAT cannot continue to provide essential social services to 21 countries in the Caribbean on a daily basis, offering close to 1 000 flights weekly, and only four countries put any funds into this operation."
Four Caribbean countries are shareholders in LIAT: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica and St Vincent.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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