The Tribune

By YOURI KEMP

A Bahamian-owned airline plans to resume flights to Marsh Harbour tomorrow as it bids to rebound from Dorian’s destruction of its Grand Bahama International Airport terminal.

Sherrexcia Rolle, Western Air’s vice-president for operations, told Tribune Business it has introduced mobile ticket counters for customers seeking to book flights. It was yesterday awaiting the arrival of office trailers via freight boats to bring it closer to full operations.

“We started operating last week Thursday with flights into Freeport,” Ms Rolle said,”and by Friday of this week we will resume our flights into Marsh Harbour, Abaco.”

While unable to provide a dollar figure for the damage inflicted on the airline’s Grand Bahama terminal, Ms Rolle replied: “We aren’t be able to provide a cost as yet as we are still in the middle of our assessments.

“What we have done is that we have started our mobile ticket counters for customers looking to book with us, and by the end of today we should be getting some office trailers coming in from the freight boat.”

Ms Rolle added: “We are committed to quality air service, and we just are trying now to make sure that we are all on the same page so we can get going again as a company and get some sort of normalcy to our lives. Then, of course, we can begin focusing on rebuilding.”

When asked by Tribune Business if all Western Air staff survived, Ms Rolle said: “Thankfully all of our staff are accounted, and so are their families.”