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SVG”s Argyle International to welcome new charter flights


2017-02-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Feb 08, 2017

 

The new Argyle International Airport (AIA) boasts a runway that is 9,000 feet long, 250 feet wide, capable of accommodating aircrafts as large as Boeing 747-400’s, while the 171,000 sq ft terminal building is designed to accommodate 1.5 million passengers per year.   The AIA is further enhanced with two jet bridges, restaurants, bars and other shops, all designed to provide passengers and airport employees with a pleasant experience.

To commemorate the long anticipated occasion and to set the tone for future flights into AIA, two  flights, Caribbean Airlines charter and Dynamics Airline will leave New York, JFK for St.Vincent and the Grenadines (AIA) on February 14th, returning on February 21st.  Tickets for both Caribbean Airlines and Dynamics are being sold by Earley Travel Services: http://www.earleytravel.com Telephone (718) 693-4200, E-mail: earleytravel@yahoo.com

Tourism has been the major economic earner for St.Vincent and the Grenadines for the last two decades and it is expected that the new international airport will increase earnings in this sector as well as other  critical sectors, including agriculture, fisheries and industry.

About St.Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG): A collection of 32 beautiful, unspoiled islands and cays in the Caribbean, St.Vincent and the Grenadines boasts the best of what the authentic Caribbean is renowned for.  The Grenadines which stretch 45 miles south from the main island of St. Vincent include eight inhabited islands: Young Island, Bequia, Union Island, Myreau, Mustique, Canouan, Palm Island and Petit St.Vincent (PSV).  Tobago Cays (home of the country’s national marine park) is a horseshoe shaped reef that shields five deserted islets and is known to have some of the best sailing waters in the world.  For more information on the beautiful islands of St.Vincent and the Grenadines, please visit www.discoversvg.com.