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London agent plans to charter own flight to serve Guyana

Jan 20, 2009 News

A London agent specialising in the Caribbean is aiming to charter his own aircraft to provide affordable fares to destinations like Guyana, that are not serviced with direct flights or sufficient capacity.
Robert Aidat-Sarran chartered a Zoom Airlines aircraft to fly weekly to Trinidad and Guyana from last November, but the plans collapsed when that airline went bust.
“It has taken a great deal of work and effort to have brought this programme this far.
“Both the Guyanese and Trinidadian communities need the flights we are aiming to provide. Forward sales have been extremely reassuring, and it is for this reason we are not dropping the programme, although the contracted carrier has ceased operations,” Aidat-Sarran said when Zoom closed.
He had about 700 passengers booked on the Zoom service. He said Guyana and the islands were losing out on UK visitors because the connecting flight made the price of reaching the destinations on scheduled flights unaffordable. Connection times can also be more than six hours.
Aidat-Sarran, of the Travel Shop in Tooting, said the proposed increases in air passenger duty for the Caribbean would add to the affordability problem and hit destinations that could least afford to absorb them.
Aidat-Sarran claimed his agency could provide enough customers to run a viable service on a 269-seat Boeing 767ER, but he said it was difficult finding a suitable airline partner.
Tourism in destinations such as St Vincent, Dominica and Guyana, although developing, but was being held back by a lack of airlift, he said.
Aidat-Sarran has been listed as the Managing Director of Club Caribee, which was responsible for introducing Zoom Airlines to Guyana.

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