Six rotations, one filing, and a silence. The corridor landed in Bridgetown — and Kingston was never on the manifest.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, September 1, 2026 - The arithmetic that killed Air Peace’s Antigua leg on 25 May was not complicated. Twenty-four passengers in, one out. The airline’s chief commercial officer, Nowel Ngala, said plainly that landing a Boeing 777 to uplift a single passenger made no economic sense.

He was right. And that sentence — spoken on day two of the region’s most celebrated aviation venture in a generation — is the whole problem with the Africa–Caribbean air link, stated by the operator itself, in public, without euphemism.