IC-Airline

Thanks to our Trinidadian friends and BWIA / Caribbean Airlines for connecting Guyana to the rest of the World. Even though Guyana is a VFR destination (Visiting Friends & Relatives) it still remains a lucrative destination for Caribbean Airlines. Caribbean Airlines has cut the non profitable routes (such as POS to London) and retained the profitable ones. The airline is state owned but has no Government representatives on the board to screw things up, they might end up like Guysuco if they did. They currently have eight Boeing 737-800s and five Dash 8 aircraft.

Lets face it other airlines have come and gone, but BWIA / Caribbean Airlines have stayed. They offer the best daily connections between Guyana and North America. It has become the natural choice for most Guyanese, they even still serve food while other airlines are cutting back. They code share with British Airways to London where connections could be made to the rest of the World.

Having said that, there should be some consolidation within the Caribbean, there are too many airlines serving a relatively small population. There should be one regional airline similar to Scandinavia's SAS (Scandinavian Air Systems) or Central America's TACA (Transportes Aereos del Continente Airways). But we have to get past the crabs in the barrel mentality pervasive in some areas of the region.

We are still waiting for Ogle airport to be developed into a regional airport to allow smaller aircraft such as the Dash 8 to land there. We don't know what the hold up is, but if the Government of Guyana expects to boost tourism, then it has to provide and maintain the required infrastructure - and we don't mean they have to get into the airline business again. We already know they would not be able to manage that efficiently.