But at the end of the day, the project is there and somebody’s got to make it work because it would be worse if it is there and it doesn’t work because we have already spent the money. might have started off as a political project. In explaining this resignation and related matters, Garth Saunders, beleaguered chair of the Board of Directors managing AIA actually admitted in the same report that the airport: For some strange reason - the excuse given was health issues - he mysteriously resigned only six weeks later. Sometime around May this year an American CEO with lots of airport management experience was indeed hired. If an airport CEO is so necessary to facilitate airline bargaining, what do we make of the Prime Minister’s remarks two years ago that, “… it is expected that some of the international airlines will enter into service agreements in 2014 with the Government to operate out of the Argyle International Airport ”, a statement made long before any search for an airport Chief Executive Officer.Īnd if a CEO were actually needed, what do we make of a similar comment in the Prime Minister’s January 2015 Budget Address that several (unnamed) airlines have expressed such a strong interest in adding SVG to their routes that, “Air service agreements are expected in the first half of 2015 with several of them?” “ If a CEO must be in place for serious negotiations to commence, what has been the point of all the years of previous “negotiations” - if this is what they actually were rather than one informal and pointless meet-and-greet after the other - with these and other airlines? After all, the Prime Minister was hell bent on building the airport whatever the obstacles, real or imagined, based on a politically useful fairytale premise that, “ If you build it, they will come ”. 1, 13).Īs I have already argued in response to the story: Once a chief executive is appointed to the AIA, representatives from the various interested airlines will visit SVG for further negotiations” ( Searchlight newspaper, Friday, January 22, pp. The airlines will have to speak to whoever the CEO is, because all sorts of things are coming into these discussions - in terms of landing fees, turn rate, depending on how many times they’re coming per week… a lot of things…. We are not going to know exactly which airlines are flying into St Vincent and the Grenadines until the airport is completed, and until a CEO has been put in position at AIA…. And I know one of the big questions is simply which airlines will be flying into St Vincent and the Grenadines….
LIAT was here they visited the airport because LIAT has to move pretty soon its operations from Arnos Vale to Argyle’”.īut isn’t this the same Glen Beache who early this year said: ‘We have had visits from a couple of them. He said that the team headed by Beache is in conversation with the international airlines. LIAT has come in and looked at the operations and also Caribbean Airlines,’ Gonsalves said in New York. There’s a fifth, which we are working with. ‘ ’’In so far as the airlines are concerned, international airlines, Glen Beache is heading the operations in that regard and he is reporting to me and I can tell you we have made great progress with one, two, three, four airlines. ‘ Great progress’ with 4 airlines as work on Argyle Airport ‘winding down’ which highlights many years of work trying to launder our airport by promoting international airline interest: Gonsalves regime to get our cleaned laundry back - to make sure that Argyle International Airport (AIA) attracts enough international airlines and passengers to make its construction worthwhile - than to say it’s just another example of “no ticky, no washy.” There is no better way to express our present national impasse, the inability of the Dr. “‘ No ticky, no washy’ has since come to be used as a catch-phrase for an impasse in many conflicted transactions quite unrelated to the Chinese or laundries”. The truth behind this bit of ethnic foolishness is that American and Canadian Chinese immigrants, often conversing with their customers in broken English, and giving them tickets written in undecipherable Chinese characters, dominated the commercial laundry business from the mid-19 th to the mid-20 th century, after which time they were gradually displaced by washing machines, large centralized operations, and permanent press clothing. Customer: “But I don’t have anything else to wear.”
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