THE Ministry of Aviation & Transport’s indifferent approach to an “overflight” revenue sharing agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration has cost The Bahamas’ cash strapped Public Treasury potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in fees.
In 2006 the FAA began charging “Enroute” fees for aircraft using its domestic airspace and those foreign carriers whose 511,000 flights pass through Miami Oceanic (ZMA) airspace – consisting of the sovereign, but FAA controlled, airspace of The Bahamas’ archipelago - on routes between Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, New York, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Central America and Mexico...
THE Ministry of Aviation & Transport’s indifferent approach to an “overflight” revenue sharing agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration has cost The Bahamas’ cash strapped Public Treasury potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in fees.
In 2006 the FAA began charging “Enroute” fees for aircraft using its domestic airspace and those foreign carriers whose 511,000 flights pass through Miami Oceanic (ZMA) airspace – consisting of the sovereign, but FAA controlled, airspace of The Bahamas’ archipelago - on routes between Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, New York, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Central America and Mexico...
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