Prolonged differences between and amongst operators in the country’s aviation sector based at the Ogle International Airport now seem set to degenerate into an open confrontation. Several of the smaller operators have joined ranks to protest what they say is the use by the management of Trans Guyana Airways of its clout at the levels of the both the local Aircraft Owners Association (AOA) as well as Ogle Airport Inc (OAI), the body managing the airport, to exert control over operations at Ogle to the detriment of others.
Just how serious the situation has become is reflected in a simultaneous objection by eight aviation operations at Ogle to what they say is a prevailing management regime at Ogle that compromises the principle of a level playing field and even seriously hampers their ability to properly run their respective businesses.
On Wednesday, just hours before 10 operators in the aviation sector announced the establishment of a new aviation body, the