Minister of Transport and Mining, Mike Henry says that the Government will go ahead with the expansion of the Ian Fleming International Airport (IFIA) in Boscobel despite criticisms raised by his Opposition counterpart in Parliament.
“Ian Fleming was meant to be an international airport. That’s what I left (as a former minister),” Henry told a press briefing at his ministry in Kingston on Thursday. This followed his contribution to the sectoral debate the previous evening at Gordon House.
He said that the airport’s runway would have to be expanded to accommodate international airlines like American Eagle.
“The Caribbean is going to need a regional hub, because under climate change the smaller islands will never be able to accommodate large planes,” Henry told the briefing.
