Air Services, Ogle management cross swords over halted construction

Domestic airline Air Services Limited (ASL) has accused the management of the Ogle Airport of discrimination after construction works which the former recently undertook to expand its operations were halted by the airport’s management.

According to a release from ASL, it recently started foundation work on a plot of land, some 2 acres in size, located south of its operations at Ogle off the airside. The airline said it applied to the management of the airport, Ogle Airport Inc (OAI), for permission to carry out the work and its request was approved by a letter signed by OAI’s CEO Anthony Mekdeci. The plot is intended for use as a parking lot.

The land was surveyed by officials from the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) in May this year but the survey plan was not provided