Anyone have problems with Liat air?

I'm traveling to St Vincent, and I'm a little afraid of small airline problems
on the puddle jumper flight between Barbados and St. V.

Any issues?

Thansk

Rich

>
>I'm traveling to St Vincent, and I'm a little afraid of small airline
>problems
>on the puddle jumper flight between Barbados and St. V.
>
>Any issues?
>
>Thansk
>
>Rich
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IMO, Liat is not your typical small puddle jumper airline. My experience with
them has been positive, specifically on the leg you mentioned to STV. If you
have a reservation, you should be OK.
Good luck

irbyjr@aol.com (IRBYJR) pounded away at his keyboard resulting in:
:IMO, Liat is not your typical small puddle jumper airline. My experience with
:them has been positive, specifically on the leg you mentioned to STV. If you
:have a reservation, you should be OK.

I have flown with lots of small puddle jump airlines. The worst that
has ever happened is that the luggage came on a later flight.

Dan Bracuk
Is it my imagination, or do Buffalo Wings taste like chicken?
The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/


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In article <217bn0lmdmo5v28ls3id6c1pk30h8rg34s@4ax.com>, Dan Bracuk
<NOTbracuk@pathcom.com> wrote:

€ irbyjr@aol.com (IRBYJR) pounded away at his keyboard resulting in:
€ :IMO, Liat is not your typical small puddle jumper airline. My experience
€ :with
€ :them has been positive, specifically on the leg you mentioned to STV. If
€ :you
€ :have a reservation, you should be OK.
€
€ I have flown with lots of small puddle jump airlines. The worst that
€ has ever happened is that the luggage came on a later flight.
€
€ Dan Bracuk
€ Is it my imagination, or do Buffalo Wings taste like chicken?
€ The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/
€
€

Of course, if you'd been on a flight where something worse had
happened, you probably wouldn't be around to post about it

Alan Street <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote:

>In article <217bn0lmdmo5v28ls3id6c1pk30h8rg34s@4ax.com>, Dan Bracuk
><NOTbracuk@pathcom.com> wrote:
>
>€ irbyjr@aol.com (IRBYJR) pounded away at his keyboard resulting in:
>€ :IMO, Liat is not your typical small puddle jumper airline. My experience
>€ :with them has been positive, specifically on the leg you mentioned to STV. If
>€ :you have a reservation, you should be OK.
>€
>€ I have flown with lots of small puddle jump airlines. The worst that
>€ has ever happened is that the luggage came on a later flight.
>€
>€ Dan Bracuk
>€ Is it my imagination, or do Buffalo Wings taste like chicken?
>€ The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/

>Of course, if you'd been on a flight where something worse had
>happened, you probably wouldn't be around to post about it

I've flown in all kinds of small planes including a 1929 Waco - after
we landed the pilot told me that he'd just bought the plane and had
never flown it before. I figure as long as the pilot is not suicidal
that he or she will want to live again to fly another day. I think
the small planes are much more fun - I'm more relaxed in them because
I can see what is going on. I particularly like sitting in the
co-pilot's seat.


grandma Rosalie

"ScubaDoo" <scubadoo@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041019132418.27979.00002792@mb-m02.aol.com...
> I'm traveling to St Vincent, and I'm a little afraid of small airline
problems
> on the puddle jumper flight between Barbados and St. V.
>
> Any issues?


When I flew from Cariacou to Grenada and back, I was told by the locals:
LIAT = Leave Island Any Time. Thought it was a joke, until I actually had to
chase the plane down the runway because it was leaving 25 minutes early. I
had a confirmed reservation, it was only a four-seater so there couldn't
have been a miscount. Pilot's excuse when I jumped in beside him: "I had
some stuff to get back for early."

There was only one flight a day, by the way.

Nice trip, though.


--
But then again, what do I know?

Lou Vallone

LouVallone@aol.com

http://members.aol.com/LouVallone

"Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:191020041700467249%agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com ...
> In article <217bn0lmdmo5v28ls3id6c1pk30h8rg34s@4ax.com>, Dan Bracuk
> <NOTbracuk@pathcom.com> wrote:
>
>
> Of course, if you'd been on a flight where something worse had
> happened, you probably wouldn't be around to post about it

Not necessarily. I was staying on an island where a plane carrying an
arriving group of tourists ditched in the water during a storm. Everyone
survived with little physical injury. Psychological trauma varied though,
from stalwart to going right back home the next day. However, those
returning took a boat back to the mainland.

We heard the plane go down just as we reached the first drop-off dock. We'd
just come from the mainland by boat after a tour. It was quite a miserable
crossing in that nasty weather. For us though, we managed it with the help
of great quantities of rum punch. Fortunately, our driver was sober as he
immediately had to go for the rescue. That left my friend and I at the
wrong dock on the wrong end of the island and having to find the rest of our
way home on our own. Like I said, fortunately, we'd had great quantities of
rum punch and so getting to the other end of the island on foot in the storm
was an adventure in itself.

It turned out that the tour office had been absolutely frantic about our
boat, for at least an hour before we arrived, believing that we too had been
lost. Innocence is bliss I guess. It had never occurred to me that we were
in that kind of danger . . .of course, I was drunk at the time but that
certainly wouldn't have been such a good condition to be in had something
happened to us. I've made note that in the future, I shall not take the
plane during such a storm and if on a boat when the storm hits, I shall not
drink . . um, much.

The next day, we went down to the tour office and left a HUGE tip for our
driver.

LIAT stands for "Late If At All". But they have a good reputation.

"ScubaDoo" <scubadoo@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041019132418.27979.00002792@mb-m02.aol.com...
> I'm traveling to St Vincent, and I'm a little afraid of small airline
problems
> on the puddle jumper flight between Barbados and St. V.
>
> Any issues?
>
> Thansk
>
> Rich

In message <xtudnRJLlaibI-bcRVn-3A@isn.net>
"Jim Lea" <jlea@isn.net> wrote:

> LIAT stands for "Late If At All". But they have a good reputation.
>
I've always heard it stood for "Luggage in another town" - I've had no
problems with them apart from delayed luggage. The planes are often not
large enough to take all the luggage so they just send it on later!

Rocky

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