Port-of-Spain: Redjet officials say they are disappointed that as many as 14 flights have to be cancelled as a result of the delay in start-up operations out of Trinidad, but its Chief Executive Officer Ian Burns, speaking at a media conference a short while ago, says the airline is happy that the approval has been given.
Redjet's first flight was to involve Trinidad on May 8th but the airline will now have it's inaugural flight on May 10th between Barbados and Guyana.
The approval took five months since the airline sent in its request on December 20th, but Burns says they were always confident that the approval would be given, because all the necessary documentation had been sent to the relevant authorities here.
Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner had been sending mixed signals over the last few weeks, at some points seeming to suggest that the airline would not be allowed entry here. Burns says they did not have to go to great lengths to convince the minister, but relied on his own statements, that he welcomed competition to state-owned Caribbean Ailrines.
In response to fears that the airline's low cost is not sustainable, Burns says the evidence is there to prove that the most successful airlines in the world at this time are those with business models similar to the one Redjet is implementing.
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