VI Airlink ‘basically just holding on’– Neville C. Brathwaite Jr
He said the company is patiently awaiting the borders to reopen.
“The big airlines have said it; we are all in this same position as an airline…of course, we are not untouched. We are basically just holding on,” he said.
Mr Brathwaite Jr was at the time responding to questions from the host of the Honestly Speaking Radio Programme, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline on Monday, May 11, 2020.
Opportunity on the horizon
The Virgin Islander pilot added: “I tell people all the time if an airplane isn’t flying, it still has to spend money. We have the ability to operate domestically, and I always say our domestic route is our community service because of the price.
But the international routes, being able to bring BV Islanders home, I foresee it as an opportunity for us to get involved, not only with being able to make a little something to keep us going but also the repatriation of our citizens coming home.”
When the phased reopening of the border commences next month it will be open only to Virgin Islanders, Belongers and others with resident status who are desirous of returning home.
Meanwhile, Mr Brathwaite Jr said the company utilised the curfew to maintain its fleet.
He stated that the airline serves the local line, within the Territory, and outside the Territory to include the United States Virgin Islands, Antigua, St Kitts and internationally, to the US mainland, as well as some South American countries.
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If the government wants any businesses at all left at the end of this they had better think about doing something, and soon.