BAHAMAS 'WELL BUFFERED' OVER CARRIER FALLOUT

Thu, Feb 2nd 2012, 10:00 PM

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

THE BAHAMAS is "well buffered" against any potential fallout from moves by American Eagle's parent to slash its workforce by up to 13,000, Tribune Business was told yesterday, the airline being among four-five carriers that each enjoy a 14 per cent share of seats coming into Nassau.

Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, minister of tourism and aviation, told Tribune Business that the strategy of diversifying airlift to the Bahamas as much as possible, so that this nation's tourism industry was not disproportionately reliant on one carrier, would insulate this nation if American Eagle's routes and service frequency from the US were impacted.
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