Guyana Airways hopes to hit the skies by February 2019

The Guyana Airways Corporation (GAC) which recently won a court case against the State for the use of the name of the air carrier, has revealed that it remains optimistic to hit the market by February 2019.
This was disclosed during an exclusive interview with Guyana Times on Friday at the GAC headquarters on Barrack Street, Kingston, Georgetown.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Colin Abrams said he was ecstatic over the news that the airline won the case against the State.
“We were pretty ecstatic with the ruling of the High Court in our favour that means we can move forward. The court order was procedural, they didn’t follow the procedures that they were supposed to…the bottom line is corporation is a living body and when you are attempting to remove life from that living body you have to notify them first,” Abrams told this publication, while speaking of the experience

between himself and the Government.
A court proceeding was filed after the CEO of GAC was discovered to be using the name of the previously Government-owned airline, which no longer exists.
The inconvenienced business man explained, “Two years after we’ve been registered and putting all this together and spending all this money, they just snuffed the life out of us without a hearing, without anything. We just had a marshal show up at our secretary’s home and that’s it, so they kinda murdered us”.
Despite the setbacks, he noted that he hopes the new airline will be able to hit the market by February.

Why Guyana Airways
When the CEO was asked why the name Guyana Airways, he averted the question and asked “why not Guyana Airways?”
He said, “Since there was a 17-year void where there were no carriers from Guyana and we relied on the services of other airlines, I thought it was time to bring some national pride back to the country”.
Local employment
The fruits of Guyana Airways are already beginning to blossom, as the CEO

related that most, if not all Guyanese employees will be hired.
According to him, 110 flight attendants have already been hired for the two aircraft which will soon provide flights to Cuba, Barbados and Trinidad for now and will extend its services to the United States of America (USA) when Guyana becomes authorised to do so.
Meanwhile, some 150 persons in total will be hired to work on the airline. Training for those employees will be done here in Guyana for four weeks and wind down in Miami, USA.

Lower cost flights
Among the cards expected to be thrown out on the table by the airline is that of low cost flights. The CEO noted that flights with Guyana Airways will be of a reduced cost all year round, which will afford Guyanese the opportunity to fly back and forth from North to South America.
Abrams explained, “Usually the number one reason why people fly in a carrier is because of cost and two, it’s not only going to be low-cost but the experience from the time you purchase your ticket to the time you get to the airport”.
The CEO promised excellent customer care service as compared to others.