If it wasn't so sad and serious an issue, you could almost turn this into an old Laurel and Hardy slapstick comedy, or an "après vous, Alphonse" scenario. They just don't seem to care that in an economy that depends upon tourism, if they do not have an up-to-date and fully functioning airport, people may start to look elsewhere. Lots of other islands are putting money into their key tourist infrastructure. The egos and apparent graft mindsets of so many of the politicians are just mind-boggling! Let's hope that at some point economic self-interest and common sense might prevail.