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Government has hired a foreign firm to review the operations at BWIA,
while the airline’s Board is now actively searching for a new chief
executive officer. Trade and Industry Minister Kenneth Valley yesterday
announced the firm that won the bid to do the review was SH&E
International Air Transport Consultancy. On June 30, 2003, the Guardian exclusively reported that Government had
authorised the Airports Authority of T&T (AATT) to issue tenders for
the hiring of a consultant to review BWIA’s operations. Speaking
to reporters yesterday during the post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall,
Valley said SH&E was selected out of a short-list
of five bidders. The review is meant to examine exactly how BWIA needs to be restructured,
as part of an initiative to merge its operations with Antigua based LIAT.
SH&E has been in existence since 1963 and promotes
itself as “the leading aviation consulting firm focused exclusively
on the air transportation industry.” “It (SH&E) is going to really firm up our
position or advise on what our position should be with respect to the
regional airline,” Valley said. He said the consultant would look
at the configuration, appropriate management structure and shareholding
of the regional airline that would be the BWIA/LIAT merger, as well as
the funding requirements for the venture. SH&E will also examine the
Airports Authority’s efforts to make the Piarco International Airport
a business and leisure travel hub for the region.
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