Commissioner Frans Richardson to hold talks with WestJet Officials

St. Maarten’s commissioner in charge of aviation affairs, Frans Richardson, is scheduled to meet with senior officials of Wes Jet airlines this week. The discussions are to be held at West Jet offices in Calgary, Canada.

 

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An inaugural West Jet flight, signaling the commencement of regular scheduled service is to take place on November 1 upcoming.

On Wednesday, Commissioner Richardson will be holding meetings with West Jet officials, Duncan Bureau, vice-president Sales & Airline Partnerships; Chris Avery, vice president Revenue & Planning, Marketing; Gregg Saretsky, vice president WestJet Vacations; Lorne Mackenzie, director, Regulatory and Government Affairs; Robert Palmer, manager, Public Relations; Angela Braun, event Customer Service; Kim Brown, manager, Marketing Communications and John Watts, manager, International Regulatory Compliance.

Accompanying the commissioner is Regina Labega, Director of the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau and Fernando William, Advisor to the Office of the Commissioner.

Just recently the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands Antilles decided to honor a request to grant West Jet a permit to operate three scheduled flights per week on the route Toronto – St. Maarten and back.

Ever since taking office, Commissioner Richardson has been diligently pursuing the matter of additional airlift out of North America and progress was made with regards to attracting West Jet, a Canadian carrier to provide scheduled airlift service to St. Maarten.

West Jet is to become the first airline to provide scheduled airlift service out of Canada into St. Maarten.