Tuesday, December 11, 2012

LIAT 1974 To Cut Flights

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Liat! Perfect for a 1/2 hour comedy show. Ha ha ha ha

December 11, 2012 at 6:06 PM
Anonymous said...

Who in of sound mind would throw good taxpayers' money after bad taxpayers' money from silly PMs from other islands?

Isn't it short-sighted that the leaders of the CARIFTA sought to make Guyana the anchor of that body forcing people to travel useless distances from the northern end of the chain, all the way to the continent of South America to hold pointless do nothing meetings?

Why did those luminaries not choose a central location, applying a little knowledge of operations research, in their decision to locate the HQ for CARIFTA, which has morphed into today's moribund CARICOM?

Now, the Saint Lucian PM appears to be making moves to ask us to pay for the reckless and baseless decisions, and a lopsided LIAT pay and benefits structure, much more in tune with the 20th rather than 21st century global economics. All of this is coming in the guise of purchasing new assets, namely, new aircraft.

Saint Lucians did not damn well vote for handing out our treasure or getting us in further financial difficulty just to cover up the financial mistakes of puffed-up socialist PMs elsewhere in the Caribbean. Did we?

Liquidate LIAT. Start a new business with new assets. LIAT's overhead expenses are too damn high. Stop subsidizing inefficiencies and the hot air of Caribbean PMs.

Stop running LIAT as if it represents an extension of the god-damn civil service. It is not.

December 12, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Anonymous said...

What the governments need to do is to remove all those bloody taxes that make up more than 60% of the cost of the actual ticket price. This will allow more people to fly and then turn a profit for LIAT.

Could you imagine, with all those taxes, it costs just as much to travel to Trinidad as it is to travel to florida. $349.20 liat to TnT and a low price of $456 jetblue to Tampa

December 14, 2012 at 3:27 PM

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