Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has been named the best air­port in the Caribbean and the third best air­port in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean re­gion by Sky­trax World Awards.

The an­nounce­ment was made last week­end dur­ing the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty’s awards cer­e­mo­ny ti­tled Recog­nis­ing Out­stand­ing Per­for­mance & Ser­vice Ex­cel­lence in cel­e­bra­tion of its 40th an­niver­sary as a State en­ter­prise.

The event was staged to high­light the hard work and ded­i­ca­tion of the au­thor­i­ty’s pi­o­neers of ex­cel­lence—those who have served for over 30 years at theau­thor­i­ty, and to recog­nise se­lect­ed em­ploy­ees have served with dis­tinc­tion.

In 2013 the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port was one of on­ly two air­ports in the West­ern Hemi­sphere to be recog­nised as be­ing ISO 140001 cer­ti­fied in En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment.

Based on a fea­si­ble study done by staff, the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU) has agreed to pro­vide the au­thor­i­ty with a grant of 1.4 mil­lion Eu­ros to con­struct a first of its kind in T&T, a so­lar pan­el elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion farm at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. This project will com­mence in 2020.

The au­thor­i­ty said its Avi­a­tion Train­ing Cen­tre at Mau­si­ca stands out promi­nent­ly in the re­gion as it con­tin­ues to at­tract avi­a­tion pro­fes­sion­als from across the globe who come to this coun­try for qual­i­ty train­ing in a high qual­i­ty cus­tomer ser­vice en­vi­ron­ment.

The au­thor­i­ty’s gen­er­al man­ag­er Hay­den New­ton­said, “The recog­ni­tion by the In­ter­na­tion­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty (ICAO) of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s high lev­el of com­pli­ance with the Stan­dards and Rec­om­mend­ed Prac­tices (SARPS) pro­mul­gat­ed by the Chica­go Con­ven­tion and its An­nex­es is a trib­ute to the good work of the em­ploy­ees.

He added, “Fur­ther, our safe­ty man­age­ment and se­cu­ri­ty sys­tems too con­tin­ue to be laud­ed by lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers as good ex­am­ples of best prac­tice in air­port man­age­ment. In 2019, the au­thor­i­ty re­ceived an award from the Air­ports Coun­cil In­ter­na­tion­al (ACI) for Air­port Ex­cel­lence (APEX ) in se­cu­ri­ty”.