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Re: Tortola Airport Shut Down Today?
[Re: VirginGordaResident]
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07/17/2023 03:21 PM
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Manpot
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FERRY!!!! Now hearing the airport fire fighters have walked off on a "sickout" over vacation pay etc. Think AA is looking at this as a good business partnership now?
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Re: Tortola Airport Shut Down Today?
[Re: VirginGordaResident]
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07/18/2023 10:20 AM
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As @srayman67 and @fitzhughlaw mention, the travel to BVI has and continues to be a painful experience. Whether one flies into Beef or takes the ferry from STT, it's no fun. We are scheduled to fly in for our trip in Oct, but as with previous trips, we're always expecting issues of one kind or another. If we're not doing a sailing vacation, we don't even consider the BVI. It's a shame because it is beautiful even if not sailing. This year will be our sixth trip to the BVI and 34th to the Caribbean. Some islands are great for land vacations, with ease-of-travel being one reason why. We wish it wasn't so difficult, time consuming (or expensive) to get there. A problem like staff at the airport walking off the job isn't solved by a private charter, as you still can't land or take off.
Of course, now with the cruise ships, maybe the BVI don't think they need as many additional tourists.
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Re: Tortola Airport Shut Down Today?
[Re: Husker]
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07/19/2023 09:40 AM
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Husker, the industry is suffering from pilot shortages (especially the legacy carriers, such as AA and Delta which laid off 30% of their overall staff after 2020), and retired a lot of older planes. I'm not a big fan of this publication as a general rule, but this article in The Atlantic does a good job of summarizing the issues now plauging the industry. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/summer-air-travel-flights-cancelled/661385/, including that Boeing doesn't have a bunch of 787s or 737s sitting in a warehouse waiting for a carrier to come in and buy one. Thus, there are years of delays attendant to purchasing an airliner, and add that to the fact that getting a job as a pilot for one of these planes requires at least 1,500 of flight time; the shortage of pilots and planes is going to persist for awhile. Interestingly enough, the article points out how a weather or staffing delay at any major city where an airline has a hub will have a ripple effect, and the cities you mentioned in your post would seem to buttress that point. Having said all of that, with these inherent industry challenges, the BVI government is inexcusably making it worse to travel here because it just keeps doing stupid stuff.
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Re: Tortola Airport Shut Down Today?
[Re: Zanshin]
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07/19/2023 03:06 PM
07/19/2023 03:06 PM
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Zanshin--or anyone else--have there been any other stories in the papers about this incident, since the airport reopened? I kind of don't understand why there has been no official statement?
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Re: Tortola Airport Shut Down Today?
[Re: VirginGordaResident]
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07/19/2023 04:42 PM
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Meahwhile, here is where the government is devoting more resources - a beauty pageant with four (4) contestants. You really can't make this stuff up... (and I really like the fact there's radio coverage that will be augmented by pay-per-view, which I'm sure will have a gold rush type of subscriber response): ‘Exorbitant expenses incurred’ to stage Miss BVI 2023 Pageant- VIF&FC - Pay-per-view platform being done to help ‘generate a revenue stream’ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Miss British Virgin Islands pageant slated for August 6, 2023, at the Multi-Purpose Sport Complex, will have a pay-per-view’ option. The pay-per-view platform is to help generate revenue to cover expenses associated with staging the pageant, according to the Miss BVI Pageant Sub Committee of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC). “Due to the exorbitant expenses incurred to ensure the pageant's success, the Committee is seeking ways to generate a revenue stream on the night of the pageant. “As such, only ZBVI Radio will be allowed to provide live "radio" coverage of the pageant as the committee will be implementing a pay-per-view platform to generate additional soles,” a statement from the Pageant Sub Committee on July 18, 2023, stated. Meanwhile, Chair of the Miss BVI Pageant Sub Committee Natalie O. Hodge clarified that while no video streaming of the pageant will be allowed, reporters and photographers attached to media houses will be allowed to cover the event. General admission to the upcoming pageant is $40.00 and VIP seating is $65.00. https://www.virginislandsnewsonline...red-to-stage-miss-bvi-2023-pageant-viffc
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Re: Tortola Airport Shut Down Today?
[Re: VirginGordaResident]
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07/20/2023 09:34 AM
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There is still no official word as to why the airport was shut down. @Fitzhughlaw - I wonder whose brainchild that pay-per-view was. I'd be surprised if more than 10 people were to pay and sign in. Certainly no belongers, for that price they would just sneak into the venue.
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Re: Tortola Airport Shut Down Today?
[Re: Fitzhughlaw]
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08/07/2023 03:02 PM
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Meahwhile, here is where the government is devoting more resources - a beauty pageant with four (4) contestants. You really can't make this stuff up... (and I really like the fact there's radio coverage that will be augmented by pay-per-view, which I'm sure will have a gold rush type of subscriber response): ‘Exorbitant expenses incurred’ to stage Miss BVI 2023 Pageant- VIF&FC - Pay-per-view platform being done to help ‘generate a revenue stream’ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Miss British Virgin Islands pageant slated for August 6, 2023, at the Multi-Purpose Sport Complex, will have a pay-per-view’ option. The pay-per-view platform is to help generate revenue to cover expenses associated with staging the pageant, according to the Miss BVI Pageant Sub Committee of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC). “Due to the exorbitant expenses incurred to ensure the pageant's success, the Committee is seeking ways to generate a revenue stream on the night of the pageant. “As such, only ZBVI Radio will be allowed to provide live "radio" coverage of the pageant as the committee will be implementing a pay-per-view platform to generate additional soles,” a statement from the Pageant Sub Committee on July 18, 2023, stated. Meanwhile, Chair of the Miss BVI Pageant Sub Committee Natalie O. Hodge clarified that while no video streaming of the pageant will be allowed, reporters and photographers attached to media houses will be allowed to cover the event. General admission to the upcoming pageant is $40.00 and VIP seating is $65.00. https://www.virginislandsnewsonline...red-to-stage-miss-bvi-2023-pageant-viffcIn a somewhat hilarious update to this saga, the $35 live stream "experienced technical difficulties" resulting in the stream being down for the first 40 minutes of the pagent https://www.virginislandsnewsonline...iew-subscribers-to-miss-bvi-2023-pageant
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