One Caribbean (St. Vincent Argyle International) will establish a base in Bridgetown, Barbados as part of plans to fill the capacity gap left by LIAT (Antigua and Barbuda) (Antigua) within the Caribbean.
Barbados's Minister of Tourism, Kerrie Symmonds, told a press conference last week that he had met with officials from the Vincentian carrier who said they were planning to target the southern Caribbean from Bridgetown.
“Therefore, we can realistically see evolving in the not too distant future, and by that I mean literally in a couple of weeks, the hub and spoke operation that will embrace Barbados and a number of the other islands of the Caribbean,” he was quoted by CBC Barbados. “I am satisfied that once they can get their operations fully up and running we will be able to see at least four flights out of Barbados and back in every day, and Barbados will be the hub of that hub and spoke operation.”
One Caribbean operates two Saab 340Bs and a single Beech 1900D. A third Saab (Sweden) is due to arrive in the coming weeks. In its initial phase, the carrier plans to offer flights connecting St. Vincent, Barbados, and St. Lucia Vigie with Grenada and Dominica Melville Hall to follow shortly after.
Symmonds did not disclose how many aircraft of which type would be deployed to Bridgetown.
