With information about LIAT 2020 still sketchy, Opposition leader believes new carrier is just a pie-in-the-sky promise

Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle is not convinced that the new
carrier LIAT 2020 is more than a pie-in-the-sky promise.
 
The Gaston Browne Administration has announced that it will be
partnering with the Nigerian airline Air Peace to establish the
operations of a successor to LIAT. The Nigerian airline is expected to
hold a 70 percent stake in the new carrier.
 
However, Pringle says that information about this joint venture
between Air Peace and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda has
been lacking. Accordingly, the Opposition – like the public – is
waiting to learn the details of the agreement and how LIAT’s
operations will be taken over.

Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle.

According to Prime Minister Gaston Browne, other Caribbean
islands have expressed an interest in being a part of this new airline,
similar to their arrangements with LIAT (1974) Ltd.
 
How this will work, and how the remaining 30 percent in shares
would be divided, remains unclear, however. Hence, Pringle
believes that this purported interest in the new LIAT 2020 is just
“talk.”