‘Tackle regional air travel as one’
(Barbados Today) As shareholder governments struggle to come up with a new funding model to keep cash-strapped airline LIAT in the skies, a development banker is calling for a united regional front on tackling aviation challenges – including a single common airspace.
Director of Economics at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr. Justin Ram said that intra-regional air travel was still too difficult and suggested that it was unnecessarily expensive.
“Why are we trying to do so many things on a country by country basis when some of these things could be better implemented if we were to do them on a regional level. One I think definitely is aviation.
“I think we need to put our heads together and say ‘look, something needs to be done about this’. I am sure many of you travel around the region and you know how difficult that is.
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