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Port Authority Responds To interCaribbean Airways' Cancellation Of Planned USVI Flights

Last updated: May 5, 2018 Following a Consortium article last month about interCaribbean Airways' decision to cancel planned flights in the U.S. Virgin Islands because of what the company described as an unfriendly business environment and apparent roadblocks to prevent it from getting started in the territory, the Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) responded by attempting to rebut the claims made by interCaribbean Airways. According to Monifa Braithwaite, V.I.P.A.'s public information officer, the Port Authority was not aware that interCaribbean had issued a release on its decision to cancel the U.S.V.I. route, even though The Consortium's article, in the second paragraph, stated as much. In its release, the Turks and Caicos-based carrier said it had been working for several months to have the U.S.V.I. filings process completed, but the process, which the airline described as lengthy and arduous, was not possible to manage in tandem with setting up all other operation...