LIAT Set to Increase Service to Guyana

By: - October 22nd, 2014

Above: a LIAT plane

By the Caribbean Journal staff

LIAT is expanding its service between Barbados and Guyana’s Ogle International Airport.

Beginning Dec. 1, 2014, LIAT will be adding three additional flights per week between Barbados and Ogle, for a total of 10 flights per week.

LIAT said it would be sending a road show to the South American country to promote the launch of the new flights.

LIAT currently operates a daily service between Ogle and Barbados’ Grantley Adams International Airport.

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