With angry, stranded passengers on their back due to protesting pilots demanding more money, LIAT has applied for an injunction seeking to temporarily get the pilots back into the cockpits of the ATR 72 planes.
LIAT’s Chief Executive Officer, Julie Reifer-Jones told Antigua OBSERVER media that the company filed the application in the Industrial Court yesterday and is anxious to have it heard.
Yesterday marked the second day the pilots refused to specifically fly the ATR 72s and this affected about a dozen flights which had to be cancelled, and several others which were delayed, according to LIAT sources.
Reifer-Jones confirmed that scores of passengers have been displaced but said she was unable to give an exact number since the carrier is still assessing the impact. She says LIAT is trying its best to rebook passengers and so far, hundreds of them have been given new bookings.
Out of its nine aircraft, LIAT is reportedly flying five ATR 42s which the pilots are not objecting to fly.
