In the wake of the pullout of Delta Airlines from Guyana earlier this month, Stabroek Business has learnt that the government may shortly be dispatching a high-level delegation to the United States in an effort to secure a suitably prestigious replacement for Delta.
Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Inc Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week that he believed that with the departure of Delta, government was now seeking to “find an airline of comparable stature” to service the route between Georgetown and the United States. Gouveia was unable to confirm a time frame for the planned US visit though this newspaper understands that it is likely to be in the short term and that the ‘search team’ is likely to be headed by Acting Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali and supported by aviation industry officials.
Meanwhile, Gouveia said that the withdrawal of Delta Airlines’ service to Guyana was likely to hurt the country in more ways than one. He explained that Roraima Airways had held the contract for Delta’s ground handling operations at the
