Seven nations will resurrect the defunct Caribbean airline, Air Peace

The governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Air Peace, a private Nigerian airline, have finalized plans to resurrect Leeward Islands Air Transportation Limited, a long-standing regional carrier that is currently in a vegetative state.

Cleveland Seaforth, the airline’s administrator, stated in December of last year that the company’s last flight would occur in late January and that all staff members would be let off by February 4.

Following LIAT’s bankruptcy, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browned unveiled a redesigned LIAT 2020, according to an AOI article on Wednesday.

According to Browned, testing of the airline’s aircraft is presently underway, and operations are anticipated to begin shortly.

How LIAT was dissolved

In 1956, the inter-Caribbean airline was established. For nearly its whole history, the airline was mired in debt.

The corporation, which had its headquarters in Antigua, had eleven Caribbean islands as shareholders at one point, creating a management structure that was nearly unworkable.

This resulted in years of financial difficulties for the airline, which were allegedly caused by mismanagement, and ultimately led to its controlled bankruptcy in 2020.

Air tranquility

Air Peace is a rapidly growing airline based in Nigeria that has started offering direct flights to London.

The service was launched one month after the airline had declared at a prelaunch event in February that it would start direct flight operations to London on March 30.

Allen Onyema, the chairman and CEO of Air Peace, declared in November that the airline had been granted both the Foreign Carrier Operator Permit and the Third Country Operator Permit.

As a result, Air Peace started offering direct flights to Europe and the UK, making it the first airline in Nigeria to do so.

When contacted, Oluwatoyin Olajide, the airline’s chief operating officer, confirmed the news but stated she was on board and traveling to the US, so she was unable to provide any specifics.