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Airlines Threaten to leave L’Esperance Airport should Landing and Other fees Increase.

lesperanceairport20062011Grand Case:--- Shop owners and airline agents operating at the L'Esperance Airport have threatened the new management company; saying that they are ready to pack their bags and leave for the Princess Juliana International Airport should the management company increase landing and rental fees. Several of the shop owners told SMN News that their contracts have been up and to date the new management company SNC Lavalin never met with the vendors operating at L' Esperance. "Our contracts are up and we are hearing that this new management wants to increase the rents but to date they have not met with us, neither have they renewed our contracts. We asked to meet with them to outline the economic situation at L'Esperance." Gilberte Multi Fonctions cleaning company that has been working at L'Esperance for the past four years said their contract was up since April 21 2011 and the new management company renewed the contract for one month which was from May 1 to May 31 2011. The one month contract is now up and we have not heard anything from SNC Lavalin. "I asked to meet with them and have met with them but to date I cannot say when my contract will be renewed, while I have four full time workers. Christian Farden of St. Barths commuters the most outspoken said he also heard of increased fees and rents for the small space the airlines uses but to date no one said if they will improve the services offered at Grand Case Airport.
carrentalbooths20062011Farden said he believes that the airlines operating at Grand Case are already paying too much landing fees because Grand Case does not give the required services. "Here at Grand Case there is no fuel refill on the airport, there is no operations room here. Since there is no fuel refill at Grand Case, airlines are losing monies because the aircraft cannot leave with a full load of passengers." Farden said there is a complete lack of infrastructure at Grand Case and the former management team did not do anything to improve services at the airport.
Some of the vendors and shop owners felt that they would have to file a complaint at the higher courts against SNC Lavalin and they would request that an investigation be done into the company which they said is very incompetent. One of the vendors said this company has a track record for leaving airports in disasters. They said one example is the Vatry Airport. "This company is specialized in negotiating and signing contracts with people who have no knowledge on how to operate airports and the governments have to end up shouldering their expenses."
As for the car rentals operating at L'Esperance they said they too never saw anyone from the new management. "All we got was a piece of paper telling us who we should write the checks out to, they were never introduced to us." The car rentals said they have been paying a monthly fee of Euros 800.00 for a small booth and three parking spaces inside the airport parking lot while they have to rent space outside the airport to park their vehicles. The car rentals said their contracts are up too and to date no renewal. The Rent Auto Association members said the car rentals are up to date with their fees yet they do not get any services from L'Esperance. They said the politicians are fully responsible for the situation at Grand Case because these politicians they said gave empty promises to the people and now that election is around the corner they are all looking for issues to champion to gain political mileage. "While we are paying a monthly fee we have gypsies that park up here and are taking away business from us and nothing was ever done by Daniel Gibbs. Gibbs told us point blank that he was not able to do anything about the gypsy situation while he was an active vice president and was in charge of transportation and the L'Esperance Airport.
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