Due to the stringent Extended Twin Operations Performance (ETOPS) requirements, which requires sterilisation of the Airport and extended airspace for long periods of time, only one ETOPS flight can currently be accepted on any one day. The latter does not apply to 3 and 4 engine aircraft.
That sounds a nonsense on multiple grounds.
3/4 engine aircraft were never contemplated in the airport development, the B737 was long the aircraft of choice. If there can be only one such flight a day, why did they build such a palatial terminal ?
Surely, even if there is runway sterilisation once an aircraft is on its way, that would only be from it passing some equivalent of a Point Of No Return, which is only an hour or two out, not the whole day.
No other equivalent remote airport, such as Easter Island or those in Antarctica, is required to work this way.
We read above that for a flight to operate it needs to involve the Airport Manager (fair enough), an Air Access Office, and a permit from the Governor's Office. Just how many bureaucrats are involved in arranging a flight, and what do they do the rest of the time ?