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The big To-Do about failing Caribbean airlift
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In July 2018, the Prime Min- ister of Barbados, reminded the attending Honourables at yet another summit that “The single domestic space for hassle intra-regional travel must be a place where we must start if we are serious about the sin- gle market and the single economy. It must be the place if we want the buy- in of our citizens.” She stat- ed that a single domestic space for hassle free travel pre-supposes a single do- mestic space for transpor- tation and that the Region could do better with re- spect to moving people between island to island and country to country.
In 2015, the Secretary Gen- eral of the Caribbean Tour- ism Organization (CTO) has urged regional authorities to institute an Open Skies policy. It would allow re- gional carriers to take un- limited flights to all CARI- COM member states and encourage the growth of competition among carri- ers, elimination of second- ary screening would en- courage greater demand for intra-regional travel. He spoke at the airline route development forum, “World Routes” in Durban, South Africa.
Already in 2006 a study was done for the same CTO, called ‘Caribbean Air Transport Study’ as part of the Caribbean Regional Sustainable Tourism Devel- opment Program. The main objective of the study was
to ‘assist the region in ratio- nalizing international and intra-regional air transport as a means of ensuring the sustainable development of the tourism sector’, or ‘how to develop and main- tain regional airlift capacity consistent with the sustain- able development of the tourism sector’. The study called for ‘Open Skies’ be- tween the various countries in the region. Most of the governments signed bilat- eral agreements with the USA because they want US airlines and passengers to come and visit. But ‘Open Skies’ among the Caribbe- an territories themselves? Fifteen years of ZZZzzzz and snoring!
Recently in 2018 at an in- dustry conference, the before mentioned Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace stat- ed that the Caribbean it- self is the major market for Caribbean airlift.
The Caribbean may not need any more stud- ies and committees, and meetings of Honourables, calling upon others to do something where they failed themselves to take the initiative for action. A ‘Summit-and-Do’ should be organized, whereby is nailed who will take the first step, what will be done, and a date of completion is set. Wouldn’t that be an honourable initiative for Honourables to agree on and stick to? In the mean- time, .... on and on it goes and where it ends no one knows. q