Renewed call for modern airport as Insel Air lands

We have a dead-beat opposition who doesn't know anything about improvement or upgrading Guyana's national gateway. They don't even know the benefits and economic gain for upgrading and modernizing our airport. It may be going at a slow pace due to the budget cut, but eventually is will be completed under a determined PPP leadership. It's a good thing that buildings don't crumble upon the bewitching spirit of some that leak eye water on the Marriott project and other major developments. These projects would have been on the ground already. Who wants to go back to the straw house day, vote for Granger?

In guess people don't know what a hub is.

Its is when a person flies from point A to point B via point C. GEO is the end  of the line for every carrier except Surinam Air, which has its hub at Pbo.  Every other carrier connects GEO to their own hub.

Let the PPP improve project oversight and redesign a project more in keeping with Guyana's needs, FOUR not EIGHT jetways. An extended runway is also appropriate.

BTW that European airlines wasn't going to fly to GEO.  It just used an excuse to buss off the PPP.   This while rolling on the groups with laughter at the notion that a behind Gods back country like Guyana will EVER by a hub!

The Opposition and it's supporters are in the 14th Century and they want to keep Guyana there.  What a bunch of ASSES!!!!!!!!!!

The call for expansion, modernizing and beautification of our national gateway to the world is serious. There is no wrong in this project since it will benefit Guyana's financially and boost the country's tourism sector. This thread need serious and positive thoughts, and the same old PPP theoretic that has been peddling here daily. Anyone who sees the CJIA expansion project as a negative move by the ruling government, is just playing politics with the country's future outlook. 

No it is not.  Its a poorly thought out overly extravagant project with no transparency.  The goal is to enrich the PPP clique with another white elephant.

Suriname has a long runway and yet it isn't a hub, so why will Guyana be.  What Suriname has that Guyana doesn't, is a thriving eco/adventure tourist industry, and this is what Guyana should be doing.  Why not ease overland travel between G/town and P'bo to make it more tourist friendly (overseas Guyanese visitors included who might be encouraged to add a trip to Suriname to their Guyana visit).  That will encourage more of those who visit Suriname to add Guyana.  With its huge population in Europe, the fares will be more competitive than any that Guyana is likely to get.

GEO will not be, and will never be a major hub because it is located in a zone with a small population.  So why eight jetways instead of four?  GEO is EMPTY for most of the day.

Let them go back and redesign a project more in keeping with Guyana's needs and use the funds remaining to develop a competitively priced tourist product which offers an easily accessible product which will provide a rich range of experiences to visitors. 

Why are there no guard rails at Kaieteur Falls?  Get more tourists there and see them tumble over, when some one is trying to record to put onto youtube.

Market forces will determine which airlines will succeed or fail into Guyana.  Not a huge white elephant.  As is there are now murmurs that there are too many seats into GEO with the arrival of these new carriers.  We will see who will survive, or drop service to GEO.  No one is going to fly into GEO at a loss to be sure.

The only Euro carrier likely to fly to GEO will be BA, 1-2X week arriving at a time of the day when GEO is empty (late afternoon).   But I bet they will demand guarantees which I doubt the PPP will give.   GEO has runway length of 7,400, while St Kitts has a runway of only 600 feet longer, and BA flies there.

Guyana does not, and will never have enough traffic to merit nonstop even from the UK so, assuming that BA were to resume service to GEO, it will be an extension of service to Bdos or some other Caribbean island.

Tourists don't fly to a country because it has a white elephant airport.  Its about time the PPP realizes that and spend money to allow Guyana to offer an eco/adventure product that can compete with other destinations.  As of now Guyana is way over priced.

Runway in St Maarten is the same length as GEO and has a mountain at the end of the runway, yet gets KLM and Air France.

The PPPs claim that nothing can happen unless the runway is lengthened is a lie told to them by airlines who have no interest in Guyana.  They are silly enough to believe.