Former Minister of Tourism Noel Lynch has advised Government not to give grounded REDjet one cent, even as Prime Minister Freundel Stuart signalled that his administration was considering helping the airline.
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told Barbadians at a town hall meeting in Washington D.C. on Sunday evening that Government had an obligation to see how it could assist the carrier which announced on March 16 that it was suspending all flights.
He said given that Government subsidizes United States-based carrier American Airlines (AA), it would be hard to defend not giving some assistance to the Barbados-based carrier.
“We pay a few million dollars to American Airlines every year so that we can get people out of the United States into Barbados and if we’re doing that we cannot credibly turn our back on an airline like REDjet if it has run into difficulty.” (DP)
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