Trans Guyana Airways implements 7% reduction in hinterland airfares

Trans Guyana Airways has announced a reduction in airfares to several hinterland communities, becoming the latest local air service to lower travel costs. The company said on Monday that it will implement a seven per cent reduction in airfares to all rehabilitated hinterland airstrips. It also noted that additional fare reductions will be applied to airstrips scheduled for upgrading in the future.

See below full release issued by Trans Guyana Airways:

Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) has given immediate consideration to His Excellency the President, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, call for a direct reduction in airfares of local aircraft operators to hinterland locations in recognition of the government’s commitment to the rehabilitation and upgrading of hinterland airstrips and, in particular, reducing the cost of travel to our Amerindian communities.

Trans Guyana Airways (TGA), as of today, will be immediately implementing a 7% reduction in airfares to all hinterland airstrips at which the government has completed full rehabilitation and will do so for all hinterland airstrips scheduled for complete upgrading when concluded and for any similarly classified new airstrips.

Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) has, in the meantime, recommended that the Aircraft Operators’ Association of Guyana Inc. (AOAG) request a meeting with the President and Minister for Public Utilities and Aviation, Minister Deodat Indar, to comprehensively address, for the long-term, a means of providing our Amerindian communities access to domestic air travel at specifically reduced costs.

Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) is proud of the fact that we are, at present, the only ISSA Certified Operator under the IATA Standard Safety Assessment Programme in Guyana and provides a critical service to Lethem with its 19 passenger seat Beechcraft 1900D, with a highflying, pressurized cabin, capable of comfort and safety and which is also available for executive, domestic and regional charter.

Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) looks forward to the opportunity of extending its Beechcraft services to the major population centers of the hinterland, once the government expands airstrips in these areas sufficient to accommodate its and other like aircraft services. This will, not only, provide an improved quality of passenger service, but contribute to the further reduction in the cost of airfares.