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There is no better time to bring a national airline

Sep 18, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
We certainly have interesting tales of air travel and the airline industry in Guyana and in these parts of the world. I paid close to US$1,000 for airfare to Montego Bay in Jamaica a few weeks ago from Georgetown.
My mother, who resides in New York, paid less than half the price and reached Sangster International Airport several hours before I did.
In the meantime, I was stopping over at three destinations, namely Trinidad, Barbados and St Maarten. I landed at Manley Airport some six hours after leaving Georgetown, and then took an Air Jamaica 20- minute flight to Montego Bay.
My mother’s flight time was just over four hours and it was a direct flight to the tourism capital of Jamaica.
The in-flight services were so poor. Juice and biscuits during one leg of the journey and something that they called lunch on the final leg to Manley airport. Coming back was no different. There were stops at Antigua, Barbados, and Trinidad.
While I didn’t mind the chance at seeing those other islands from inside the plane, I wanted to get to my destination.
The tiresome and hassling experience is not one I would recommend to anyone traveling to Jamaica or one of those far-away islands.
Wasn’t there an alternative that could have taken me faster — perhaps directly to Manley airport or even Sangster in MoBay, maybe, from Trinidad or Barbados? This is ridiculous!
The hassling meted out to Guyanese during airline traveling and airline choices is overbearing.
There is no better time to bring a national airline once more to Guyana, and make it really work this time. Travel agencies, too, need to engage travelers and customers with more options and solutions so that we get to our destinations in the shortest possible time and spend wisely too.
I should not have paid so much to go to MoBay when the price for that ticket could have easily taken me halfway around the world and back.
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