AIRLINE HOPES LPIA WOES STAY BELOW 100,000

Wed, Jan 11th 2012, 06:10 AM

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

A LEADING Bahamian-owned airline yesterday said it was hoping that extra fuel and overtime costs incurred due to delays at Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) over the Christmas-New Year week did not hit the $100,000 mark, while disclosing that load factors on its domestic routes had fallen to 39-42 per cent.

Captain Randy Butler, president and chief executive at Sky Bahamas, told Tribune Business that the carrier was expecting to incur at least $70,000 in extra costs due to the delays resulting from a combination of air traffic controller 'go slows' and congested skies in the Bahamas/Miami area.

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