Flight Services comes alive with $200,000 deal

As of Tuesday, November 20, 2018

ALIV and Nassau Flight Services (NFS) yesterday announced a four-year partnership that will give the airport ground services provider upgraded communications services.

Damian Blackburn, Aliv’s chief executive, said the agreement represented yet “another progressive and promising partnership opportunity”, with Aliv providing NFS personnel “the most affordable services and best quality devices we have to offer”.

He added: “As with all partnerships with Aliv it will certainly be different. Aliv is more than a telecommunications company. The goal is to provide innovative and superior services in several ways.

“Not only will NFS benefit from beautiful new handsets and smart phones on the country’s fastest network, and especially in the airport where we have invested a lot of money to make the airport sing. We will also be supplying NFS, as they request them from us, partnership opportunities in the sales and marketing are,a and to support the growth, development and sustainability of its fantastic VIP fast-track services.

“NFS has shown huge confidence in our push-to-talk service, which will permit NFS team members to communicate with each other with a radio-styled device just with the push of a button.” Selected members of the NFS team will also wear Aliv and NFS-branded attire.

Mr Blackburn added that the partnership agreement was worth around $200,000, but said: “It’s more than the money really. We have committed to help the team at NFS get the best out of communications.”

NFS’s general manager, Ricardo Rolle, said: “At NFS communication is very important. We communicate with the aircraft on the way in, and our communication is on the ground, constantly moving bags in and out of the terminal.

“We also have the passenger services side where we do the ticketing and check-in of passengers and, in that, communication is important as we move passengers from the front to the back at the gate. Newly-added to this line is the fact that we are now able to communicate directly with Exuma and San Salvador. That is an added feature, and we can now communicate with them directly.”