Two test flights have been planned with officials from the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA).

These flights will be a prelude to issuing the Air Operator Certificate (A.O.C.), which the airline must be authorized to fly.

After careful consideration, the Cabinet agreed to allocate $12.1 Million US into an Escrow account for the purpose of acquiring additional planes owned by the Caribbean Development Bank.

The test flight will be carried out with the first plane that the government secured from the CDB

This move is a significant step towards ensuring the airline’s continued success and growth in the future.

Chief of Staff in the Office of the Prime Minister Lionel Hurst said this is a slap in the face by those who portrayed it as “a man flagging a dead horse.

“Those who wanted LIAT to fail are very wrong. We will be putting it back in the air in just weeks,” Hurst said at the weekly Cabinet press conference on Friday.

Meanwhile, Hurst says obtaining the A.O.C will take a little more than one week.