bimjimmy

bimjimmy

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11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 0 replies · +1 points

"There exists a suggestion for an umbrella "holding company" to which existing regional airlines may be affiliated, retain their ownership, and become part of a real regional airline which all share one look, one feel and one standard." http://www.craneforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=236&t=3122

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 2 replies · 0 points

I can't hear you, mp1972... or is this something you said to make yourself feel good?

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 0 replies · -1 points

Remember, please, that T&T has as little as 15 years remaining of oil and gas (professional industry estimates), and the unlimited spending Carnival cannot go on forever. I believe at some point CAL will abandon the rest of the region, and what will the small islands do then? To re-fleet a new airline and get it running will be beyond the means of most of them. For future stability of the regional aviation industry I believe that a regional airline that is OWNED AND OPERATED by one country CANNOT SURVIVE.

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 0 replies · 0 points

Few people have the interest or the experience to look far intio the future for aviation in the Caribbean. My (unwanted) vision is that by hook or by crook CAL takes over LIAT, then falls victim to TT taxpayer and regional government revolts. In the haste to cut expenses and commitments I see CAL returning to its core business - serving T&T, and nobody else - and dropping Jamaica and all of the (then former) LIAT routes.

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 0 replies · +1 points

If LIAT has been better run that BWIA/CAL, then I am sorry for BWIA/CAL... LIAT's management over the decades has been less than abysmal, by unqualified and unimaginative political appointees or promotions from within whose unconsidered approach to losing vast sums of money was almost solely to start laying off the lowest paid workers and cause a further crisis through shortage of labour and industrial action. And LIAT's Board has always been full of political appointees bent on their own careers with very little interest in forwarding the airline

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 1 reply · 0 points

Over the years I watched T&T - one way or another - "twist arms" up and down the islands to get their way. So they had plenty of practice by the time Manning got to Golding over Air Jamaica. T&T - including Manning, et al - have become the regional bullies demanding things their own way.

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 1 reply · 0 points

Perhaps I do understand the airline industry - after being deep in it for over 40 years. LIAT is the EC milk-run operatior, doing all the hard, laborious and dirty work while CAL flies the long sweet efficient sectors overhead - laughing all the while at the "small islanders" who feed them.

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 1 reply · +1 points

If LIAT had previously been allowed by Trinidad's Board member to operate longer routes (back when T&T was a shareholder) perhaps LIAT might not have come so close to incolvency so many times, and might still be able to serve ALL of the islands using the additional efficient revenue those longer routes would have earned.

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 1 reply · -1 points

Caribbean Airlines had dropped out of the bidding by the time it was leaked that Spirit was in the lead. The PM Manning called PM Golding to trinidad - and he went - and Caribbean Airlines was the "Privatisation" winner after they had a conversation. http://www.123jump.com/market-update/Private-Equity-Buyers-for-Air-Jamaica/33608/ http://www.ticker.com/market-update/Private-Equity-Buyers-for-Air-Jamaica/33608/
Private Equity Buyers for Air Jamaica
July 04 2009

11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Caricom air transporta... · 3 replies · -1 points

Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves: “You can’t do it, it is just wrong - it is contrary to the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and is contrary to the 1996 Common Air Services Agreement signed to by CARICOM members, including Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines”. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Gonsalves-wants-competition-between-LIAT-and-CAL-discussed