If the recently acquired 19-seater Rayethon Beechcraft 1900 D is to provide optimum service to the country’s aviation sector it will have to benefit from upgraded domestic infrastructure including, particularly, an improved network of airstrips at several interior locations.
Last week Stabroek Business sat down with Trans Guyana’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Correia who spoke enthusiastically about how the recent acquisition could enhance the capacity of the country’s air transport sector whilst adding a generous measure of prestige to its aviation industry. Apart from plans to utilize it to provide service to various interior locations and to fly visitors to the Kaieteur Falls, Correia spoke with Stabroek Business about the regional and hemispheric prospects for the new aircraft.
In the matter of the aircraft’s domestic operations, however, Correia has raised once again the issue of the condition of several interior airstrips and whether or not his company’s whopping US$4 million investment in an aircraft intended to enhance the country’s aviation sector ought not to
