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Leeward Islands Air Line Pilots Association
 

  LIALPA
  Leeward Islands
  Air Line Pilots' Association
   
  PO Box 2313, St. Johns
  ANTIGUA, West Indies
  (268) 463-0439 Voice
  (268) 462-0929 Fax

LIALPA is a professional Association, actively and democratically performing the role of a registered Trade Union in both Antigua and Barbados, West Indies.

 
LIALPA Executive Council
(July 2002 - July 2003 term)
Updated 1 April, 2002
 
Officer
Officer's
Name
Telephone
Number
e-mail form
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Chairman  Michael Blackburn    
Vice-Chairman  William Baksh    
Secretary  Harriet Tonge    
LIALPA Office/Fax 1-268-562-2743
Treasurer  Derek Murray    
Council Member  Raj Singh    
Council Member  Gregory Dean    
Council Member  Henry Drakes    
Council Member  Patterson Thompson    
Council Member  Dean Sprott    
Council Member  Andre Grey    
IFALPA Director Annemarie Delisle 1-268-461-7321
1-268-464-0170		 Annemarie Delisle

(TBA=To be advised)

Something about LIALPA Members and LIAT (1974) Limited

Currently, all of LIALPA's Members fly for LIAT (1974) Limited, a regional airline based in Antigua, West Indies, recently privatised from the Caribbean Governments. LIALPA Members are drawn from all independent Caribbean Territories.

LIAT aircraft - and LIALPA Members - begin flying before 6am and have usually completed their last flights by midnight - and they do this every day of the year.

The route network island-hops from Timehri, Guyana in the south-east and Caracas, Venezuela in the south-west all the way to VC Bird Airport, Antigua in the north-east and then on through San Juan, Puerto Rico to Santiago in the Dominican Republic in the north-west of the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands.

In the process, the schedule touches no less than 26 stations, speaking four languages in 16 nations - including four of the G7 members (USA, UK, Holland and France).

An aircraft in one of LIAT's previous fleets (a BAe748 - the beloved "Avro") held the record for the greatest number of landings for a single aircraft of the type - wordwide. This is due to the high frequency of landings and the long service life of the Company's aircraft. This high rate of cycles continues in the present fleet generation used by LIAT, the deHavilland Dash-8 -100 Series. (LIAT recently removed all of their seven Twin Otter aircraft from service.)

LIALPA Members - and LIAT's fleet - provide an invaluable and necessary daily inter-island scheduled "bus service" to all of these islands and nations, linking the Caribbean like no other entity or form of transportation. This link also forges the ties that physically bind the Eastern Caribbean people together, so it is no surprise that research indicates over 95% of LIAT's business comes from the movement of local nationals within the region.

 

SlipStream Newsletter

Here is LIALPA's official Newsletter publication, "SlipStream", starting from November, 1997... (the Newsletter has actually been in publication since January, 1993).

** With the appointment of the SlipStream Editor to a Corporate position within LIAT, due to lack of time on his part the publication of the newsletter has been suspended until someone else assumes that responsibility.

 

Articles Archive
Published articles about LIAT, BWIA, Air Jamaica, and other matters relevant to Eastern Caribbean aviation.

Equipment currently in use by LIAT (1974) Limited are -

dHC - Bombardier deHavilland of Canada

Over the last 37 years of its existence, LIAT Pilots have also flown the Beech Twin Bonanza, BN-2A Islander, BN-2A-III Trislander, dHC-6 Twin Otter, dHC-8-300 series Dash-8, BAe748 "Avro", and BAC-111 types.
 

LIALPA has always been affiliated to IFALPA ...
(International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations).

... and is now a part of the CAR-ALPA group
CARibbean Air Line Pilots Associations

Link to the Page on this site for other Pilots' Associations

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Leeward Islands Air Line Pilots Association

LIALPA is a professional Pilots' Association in the Eastern Caribbean, a registered Trade Union, and is affiliated to IFALPA.

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