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Feb 18, 2013 News
– AFC’s Cathy Hughes
While American charter, Delta Airlines, has decided to pull its services out of Guyana because of insufficient passengers, the government is throwing up a US multiple million dollar Marriott Hotel which just doesn’t make sense, said Alliance for Change (AFC) executive member Cathy Hughes.
While protesting outside the hotel’s construction site earlier this week, the AFC member told the media that there is no need for the Marriott Hotel and Delta’s pull out from Guyana is evidence of this.
On Friday last, Delta confirmed its pull out from Guyana and a spokesperson said that it was unable to continue its services because of a significant decline in passengers and that it was losing money. Hughes said that this shows the prospects for the Marriott if the airline is unable to full its seats.
“Delta has told us clearly that they do not have enough (passengers) to continue a profitable run and to include Guyana in their market. So it goes to show, that we have some fundamental problems and we have done nothing about it. Clearly not enough people are coming to Guyana, so why would you need a Marriott?” Hughes questioned.
Hughes charged that the Government should thus listen to tax payers whose money is being invested into the project. She said the Government has gone to great lengths to imply that hundreds of thousands of people come to the country, instead of listening to the people who have elected them to be their representatives.
Sarah Lora, Delta’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Latin American and Caribbean, stated in the airline’s official statement that “Delta Airlines will close its station in Georgetown, Guyana, discontinuing flights between the John F. Kennedy International Airport and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.”
The close, the statement said would be effective May 6, 2013, due to poor performance of the route. It was also indicated that although Delta would prefer to continue serving the market, flights between Georgetown and New York’s JFK International Airport have experienced a notable “decline in passenger loads and revenues for the past 18 months, leading to unsustainable losses.”
The government however said it was disappointed since not only was the airline doing well, indications were that it was commanding near full passenger loads, this year racking up its highest percentage…89 per cent, according to a government spokesperson.
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