Neptune Aviation has acquired Avro RJ100 VP-LOS (msn E3282) as N479NA. VP-LOS had been intended to operate for BVI Airways, but never did so, as the airline ran out of cash and shut down prior to beginning its planned services from Tortola to the USA (sistership VP-LWW did operate a […]
The government of the British Virgin Islands has notified BVI Airways that it considers it in breach of its contract to operate direct flights between the islands and the USA. The government had provided the airline USD7.2 million in subsidies to enable to being services. Although it had received all the necessary authorizations […]
Avro RJ100 VP-LWW (msn E3274) of BVI Airways was ferried from Fort Lauderdale to Summerside on 26 August. She had been stored at Fort Lauderdale since 7 June, following the end of its contract with Haiti’s Sunrise Airways. She joins the airline’s other RJ100, VP-LOS (msn E3282), who had been undergoing maintenance by Tronosjet. The airline was planning to begin […]
BVI Airways has announced that a shortage of cash has forced it to lay off its flight crew, including both pilots and flight attendants. The airline indicated that the protracted regulatory process had burned through its available funding, including USD7 million provided by the government of the British Virgin Islands. […]
BVI Airways has indicated that the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, which operates Miami airport, “jumped the gun” when it announced that the airline would begin services there on 22 July. The MDAP had announced that BVI Airways would operate two weekly roundtrips between Tortola and Miami, on Saturdays and Sundays. The […]
BVI Airways ended its operations on behalf of Haiti’s Sunrise Airways on 7 June. The airline had been flying Avro RJ100 VP-LWW (msn E3274) for Sunrise since 18 April on flights between Port au Prince and Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Camaguey, all in Cuba. On 7 June, she ferried from […]
BVI Airways is operating Avro RJ100 VP-LWW (msn E3274) on behalf of Haiti’s Sunrise Airways. She positioned to Port-au-Prince on 18 April, immediately after returning from Curacao, bringing the BVI National Athletics Team back from the Carifta Games 2017—BVI Airways first commercial flight. She is being operated on flights to Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and […]
BVI Airways operated its first commercial flight with one of its Avro RJ100s on 13 April, when RJ100 VP-LWW (msn E3274) flew a charter carrying the BVI National Athletics Team to Curacao for the Carifta Games 2017. The airline hopes to start services to Miami soon, but is still awaiting authorization from the […]
The second Avro RJ100 for BVI Airways, VP-LWW (msn E3274 ex HB-IXV), has been painted in the airline’s colors at Summerside. her colors differ from those sported by the airline’s first RJ100, VP-LOS (msn E3282), in that the underside is painted dark blue. It is thought that VP-LOS will also be […]
BVI Airways moved closer to its goal of starting services to Miami with its Avro RJ100s when it received a revised Air Operator Certificate (AOC) allowing it to operate its RJ100s from Beef Island airport in Tortola from Air Safety Support International, the Civil Aviation Authority for the United Kingdom Overseas […]
