Relaunched LIAT airlines reconnects BVI with rest of Eastern Caribbean

TORTOLA — British Virgin Islands officials are celebrating the relaunch of LIAT Airlines following its inaugural flight earlier this month, boosting air traffic in the territory.

According to a released statement, LIAT Airlines 2020 Ltd., which will operate as LIAT20 or LIAT, will reconnect the BVI with the rest of the Eastern Caribbean, marking the fourth airline to do so in the last two months. The Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Airlines began service on Oct. 14. That airlines joined Inter Caribbean and St. Martin-based Winair as regionwide airlines serving the territory.

According to the released statement from the BVI government, the new LIAT is a 30 percent/70 percent venture between the government of Antigua and Barbuda and Air Peace, whose fleet has been inherited from the former LIAT company that first began serving the Caribbean in 1974 from its home-base of Antigua. LIAT made its inaugural flight to the BVI’s Terrance B. Lettsome Airport on the evening of Dec. 8, marking a significant milestone in enhancing regional connectivity, according a statement from the BVI government.