Hundreds of Guyanese pilots, engineers working with regional, international airlines

Private aviation companies want government to provide provisional approval to allow the Ogle Airport to be used for regional flights.

Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Busi-ness that “all of the measures and mechanisms” necessary to allow such permission to be given are in place.

Gouveia told Stabroek Business that in the absence of such official permission Roraima Air-ways’ daily flight to Port-Of-Spain to fulfil its parcel delivery service contract with Fedex has to fly from Ogle to Timehri before it could undertake what is, in effect, an international flight……