ONLY COST AND STAMP OF APPROVAL? REALLY EDITOR?

Sir,
 
Why was there a tender to ‘find business’ for the airport and the airplane?
You published the tender, so you are fully aware the airplane will not be taking off any time soon? Swazi Airways are preparing a media briefing for what?

They have succeeded where anyone could with buying a bus but the passengers, destinations and stops required to make the bus service a success they have failed with. Does a would-be bus operator buy a bus before he knows where it will go to or whether there will be passengers requiring the service? “It is an expensive industry. If there are no funds, they will struggle to bring us what they need to…..”  

We have the plane but we can’t afford to fly it? All I hear from this Swazi Airways team are comments that anybody with half a brain could make. Swazi Airways has a high regard for safety, which airline does NOT? Buying a plane is a major milestone towards the kingdom having it’s own airline - incredibly shrewd?

It has taken more time than anticipated for the aircraft (we can’t currently operate!) to get here and we are excited that the acquisition process for the aircraft (we don’t have funds to operate!) has been finalised.
Honestly, talk about chin stroking comments, really! In a couple of weeks that aircraft will have been standing for five months and it is no clearer now when it will take off, to where or where those passengers will be accrued than when it arrived at the KMIII International Airport in October?

We may be clearer when the tender to ‘find business’ is hopefully awarded to a company that knows how to make a success of the airport, the plane and the airline.  This service will no doubt come with another huge cost which could have been avoided if all these airport/airline people had spent the last couple of years getting ahead and planning the future, instead of waiting for someone else to get things rolling.

Concerned Swazi

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