(L-R) Air Montserrat pilot Robert Bartlett, Founder and CEO Philip Rogers, and Pilot Andrew McKee

Over 30 passengers booked on the WINAIR flights between Montserrat and Antigua have been unable to take their scheduled flights because of high winds at Geralds Airport.

Malcolm Harris, Operations Manager at Airport Services Limited which handles flights for WINAIR said “the winds here at Geralds Airport have been above 30 knots for the most part of the day and so we have not been able to have any WINAIR flights land or take off from Geralds Airport. What we have been doing is refunding passengers their airfare and some passengers have been going over to Air Montserrat and booking seats on their charter service.”

Air Montserrat operated its inaugural flight out of Montserrat at 6:30am on Friday December 1, 2006, with a return flight out of Antigua’s VC Bird International Airport at 7:30am. Since then the airline has been providing an alternate air transport service between Montserrat and Antigua.

Philip Rogers, CEO and Founder of Air Montserrat said: “it’s been a very busy first day for us today, we have been dealing with quite a large number of passengers trying to get out of Montserrat and those trying to get into Montserrat and we’ve been really booked up.”

The airline is operating a Britten Norman Islander that holds up to nine passengers, and also offers charters to other neighboring Caribbean islands, sight seeing tours, and cargo lift.

One-way fares between Montserrat and Antigua start at US$65 inclusive of all taxes and charges.