A pilot for a locally registered airline is questioning regulations that allow 
foreign-registered carriers to fly some routes from the Virgin Islands to other overseas territories, a dispute which has gone on for months.
Neville Brathwaite Jr., accountable manager with VI-Airlink, the territory’s only locally-registered airline, has been meeting with government officials and writing to Air Safety Support International, the territory’s air safety regulator, in an attempt to change government policy.
Mr. Brathwaite asserts that long-established international conventions dictate that locally registered carriers should be the only carriers allowed to fly from the territory to Anguilla, St. Maarten and other Caribbean destinations. Current government policy, he said, allows United States-registered carriers such as Island Birds to fly those routes, in addition to flying between US destinations and the VI.
See the May 5, 2011 edition for full coverage.