Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados (CNS): Cayman Airways Ltd is set to add two midweek flights from Grand Cayman to Barbados from 18 October. In what Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan said was an unusual move for the government-owned airline, the goal is to expand connections across the Caribbean for both countries, as well as offer…
An aerospace engineer is expressing optimism that regional carrier LIAT can be revived.However, said Professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, John-Paul Clarke, it will require political will and a short-term incentive scheme from governments.At the same time, Clarke said he believed Caribbean governments should work together to attract wide-bodied long-haul planes to the region and introduce incentives to allow small regional carriers to provide connectivity to the various islands.“That would help intra-regional travel because that connectivity there would become a bridge and you know there are lots of small carriers. LIAT would be resurrected in some form. I have faith that will happen. So there is lots of potential there,” he said.“We need to take a holistic approach and the governments of the region have to think about whether they are going to do it themselves or provide the incentives for the private sector to do it. But that is something I wi