ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit will be among passengers on the inaugural night flight to land at the Melville Hall airport on Monday.
The Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, will touch down at the airport, north of here, signaling the start of night flights into the country that Ports Minister Rayburn Blackmoore will result in a transformation of the island’s economic landscape.
“The upgrading of the Melville hall airport is critical to overall development. Night landing in itself would create tremendous opportunities for us in the area of trade and will add value to our tourist product itself.
“There are so other opportunities for people involved in the taxi service, car rental business and agriculture,” according to Blackmoore.
The regional carrier LIAT earlier this month conducted test flights into the upgraded facility after the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCA) gave the go-ahead for night landing to begin.
Blackmoore noted that a new hotel facility to be funded by the Moroccan government will also improve the services available to users of the airport.
He said that the EC$120 million (US$44.4 million) spent on upgrading the facility was justified and that further improvement works would include an improved terminal building, a car park, construction of a new fire station and training for air traffic controllers and other officers.
