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REDjet: Guyana will not revoke grounded airlines’ license
Guyana is leaving the door open for low cost carrier REDjet to resume its flights, saying it will not revoke the carrier’s licence.
Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon told reporters there’s no need for the country to take such action, the Demerara waves online news service has reported.
“I don’t know it’s possible that Guyana might, but then again we don’t have to because REDjet is not flying so we don’t need to. I don’t believe that you’re going to pile on unnecessary agony because once you revoke it you’ve got to go through the whole process of providing them once more with the licence.”
Luncheon’s comments follow those of Antigua and Barbuda’s Tourism Minister John Maginley, who said last Friday that his government is not contemplating withdrawing REDjet’s licence.
Four days after Redjet grounded its operations on March 16, Barbados, the home of the carrier, revoked its Air Operating License (AOC).
Details of Barbados’ action were revealed in a brief statement by the Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority (TTCAA) which said it had “no option” but to revoke REDjet’s licence because the airline no longer had a “valid” air operator’s certificate from Barbados.
“The suspension of REDjet’s AOC by the Barbados Civil Aviation Department (BCAD) would therefore invalidate Section 6 (1) (a) of the TTCAA regulations, which states that as one of the conditions to grant a provisional licence is that the carrier “…has a valid AOC issued by the foreign authority.”
