A controversial May 17, letter signed by Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) Chief Executive Officer Anthony Mekdeci and circulated to the media asserting that but for investments made by OAI Chairman Michael Correia what is now the Eugene R Correia International Airport would not have come on stream threatens to extend the controversy that has been raging at the country’s second international airport ever since the announcement some weeks ago regarding its renaming.
“There would be no international airport today at Ogle, if Mr Correia did not honour his investment obligation and put in his money,” Mekdeci said his letter.
More significant perhaps, was the assertion in Mekdeci’s letter that the now renamed Eugene F Correia International Airport is “100% built, owned and operated by a private sector company, Ogle Airport Inc,” a remark that appeared at variance with the pronouncement made by Public Infrastructure Works Minister David Patterson at the airport renaming ceremony that
