BVI LIFTS SUSPENSION ON ONE CARIBBEAN AIRLINE
Written by Fuze Team on August 27, 2020
BVI has lifted the suspension preventing One Caribbean Airlines’ flights to the territory, following the conclusion that there was no intent on the airline’s part to break COVID-19 protocols.
Chief Executive Officer of the OCL Barbados Ltd/One Caribbean Ltd Airlines, Reginald Adams, said that he received a letter on the morning of Sunday, August 23, informing him that the suspension had been lifted.
He noted that the suspension had been in effect for eight days.
Previously, the British Virgin Islands Airport Authority (BVIAA) had issued a notice stating that One Caribbean’s Foreign Operator’s Permit (FOP) was indefinitely suspended following a flight landing at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport on August 4, without the necessary requirements.
It was stated that this essentially means that the airline would not be allowed into the Territory during the period of suspension.
Managing director of the BVIAA Clive Smith said any violation of the Government or the Authority’s protocols will not be taken lightly, as the wellbeing of their residents and citizens, the internal economy and the successful rebound of the economy post-COVID-19 is reliant on our ability to keep the BVI COVID-19 free.
Adams also said that all of the countries update their protocols weekly, and they’ve been having to operate on all these islands and track all the protocols as they change.
He said that BVI changed their protocol on a Saturday and they were not updated as to the change.
