From the little that I can gather, they purchased the under powered Embraer, so with our runway length it cannot take off fully laden?! If that doesn't fit the bill for a white elephant I don't know what does.
We just seem to have management who don't understand the nature of the business, and now the Government want us to provide a contingency for an inter island service that may or may not take off! (Excuse the pun) And that is with the aircraft (Dornier 228) that were meant to appear 12 months ago or so.
If we don't have the aircraft to fly GUR-ALD-SOU how are we going to provide a contingency???!!!