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Jul 05, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Almost all airlines around the world offer incentives for passengers to use their respective airline and one of those enticements is the Frequency Flyer Programme.
This works by awarding miles or points for each mile travelled by a passenger. After miles have been accumulated, a member of the programme can exchange or cash them to travel and or obtain other benefits.
Caribbean Airlines has this programme and when you travel for instance to Trinidad you get seven hundred and six miles as this is the distance from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport to Piarco Airport. It is 3, 952 miles to Miami International Airport, 5,104 miles to JFK, New York and 9,540 to Heathrow Airport, England.
Each airline has their own exchange rates for tickets to different destinations. Caribbean Airlines will give you a return or one way ticket to any of their routes. Their exchange rates for one way tickets are as follows — (a) 7,500 miles to any of their Caribbean or South American routes, (b) 15,000 miles to Miami, New York or Toronto.

A person can become a member with other airlines and thus earn miles when traveling with them. Further several airlines have an alliance whereby miles are earned if you travel with any of the members of the alliance and as a result members tend to travel with those airlines from which they can benefit.
President Jagdeo travels widely and frequently and more importantly in first class. You get bonus miles when you travel first or business class. Thus President Jagdeo is the recipient of thousands of miles every year. I am sure that he is registered in one or several frequency flyer programmes. If he is not, then he should register immediately.

I would like to suggest that all persons who travel at the government’s expense should not keep their miles, but donate them to a pool and or account from which needy and or sick persons and or children who have to travel abroad can access tickets. I do hope that sports may also benefit. This will bring in all those who travel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all ministers of government, who mostly times travel first class and every travel which is funded by the government. It should also include those whose travel, have been funded by sponsorship or otherwise.
If the suggestion contained herein has some merit, then the CARICOM Secretariat can implement same as the nature of their work require frequent travel. Mr. President I would humbly suggest that you seriously consider implementing this suggestion without haste as dozens of free airline tickets will become available. Guyana can lead the way in this initiative and I am certain that other governments will follow.
K.A. Juman-Yassin
Attorney-at-Law

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