Caribbean Airlines must really be treating Tobago badly for Orville London to call for an independent airline to service the air bridgeIn this regard, I wonder if Mr London has taken a short hop on Liat lately or, worse yet, paid for a ticket to go from Paramaribo to Georgetown or from Santo Domingo to Port-Au-Prince.Those two aforementioned 50-minute journeys cost in the region of US$165 one way, or US$250 return. I would estimate the commercial price for a return ticket to Tobago would be in the region of TT$900.
I suppose Mr London inhabits the dream world of transfers and subsidies where he is handed large amounts of money to employ 70 per cent of Tobago's population to work for, on average, two and a half hours a day. This state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely and the Government will have to address this mess someday.
Speaking of disasters, I would like to see an opportunity cost analysis of 72 years of BWIA/ Caribbean Airlines losses.At the end of the exercise I guarantee that T&T would have been much better off without funding the financial sinkhole known as BWIA/Caribbean Airlines.Look at the Dominican Republic, they have more hotel rooms than the rest of the Caribbean multiplied by five; they have six functioning airports and guess what–no national airline.
Gregory Wight,
Maraval