Business interests bemoan lack of reliable air service

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Business interests bemoan lack of reliable air service
published: Tuesday | February 13, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody YsFrO="true">


Air <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> Chairman, Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, says, "A lot of the problems they (the Government) will obviously have on the road with World Cup visitors wanting to get to Sabina Park would have been alleviated if they had given their support to Air Jamaica Express." - Rudolph Brown/Chief <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Photographer</SPAN>

Garwin Davis, Gleaner Writer

World Cup cricket organisers would have been spared a lot of potential headache had there been a "reliable <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">air </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">service</SPAN> route between Montego Bay and Kingston", local business interests have charged.

They note that with the country having had years to prepare for the World Cup, adequate and reliable air service should have been in place to ease a lot of the pressure <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">off </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">road</SPAN> travel.

"For many Montego Bay business people

[Karl]

RE: Business interests bemoan lack of reliable air service

MdmeX (2/13/2007)Business interests bemoan lack of reliable air service
published: Tuesday | February 13, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody YsFrO="true">


AirJamaica Chairman, Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, says, "A lot of the problems they (the Government) will obviously have on the road with World Cup visitors wanting to get to Sabina Park would have been alleviated if they had given their support to Air Jamaica Express." - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

Garwin Davis, Gleaner Writer

Broken agreement

"When we gave back the national airline in 2004, we had an agreement in principle with the Government that Air Jamaica Express would be allowed to continue using the same routes it had been serving," Stewart said. "The agreement wasn't honoured and the main routes were slashed. It was costing me a lot of money just to do the domestic routes and so I felt the best thing was simply to get out." </DIV>

Butch teh up comedi?

He acknowledges it was a losing venture. He is on record as cussing di governement for waste and ignorance in managing an airline...and, when the government shelves a losing proposition/ditches a losing venture...he bawls? :w00t:

joke ting dat! :angry: