Tag: Cayman Islands Airports Authority
Airport bid pushes out small businesses
(CNS Business): Some of the small business owners that are currently running retail concessions at Owen Roberts International Airport believe they are being pushed out of the bids for the new space. The Cayman Islands Small Business Association (CISBA) has accused the airport authority of creating a request for proposals with confusing paperwork, forcing bidders […]
When will the airport runway project take off?
A year or so ago our tourism minister revealed plans to begin extending the runway at Owen Roberts International Airport. I have not heard a peep since. Is this initiative alive or dead?
Final farewell for waving gallery open to public
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) has issued an open invitation to the public on 17 January to mark the closing of the popular waving gallery at Owen Roberts International Airport on Tuesday. The closure of the gallery is part of the ongoing airport expansion and redevelopment project and is necessary, the CIAA said, […]
Airport battles to fill key position
(CNS): The airport is struggling to fill a vacancy in its HR department and has resorted to local recruitment agencies to fill the key position with a temporary ex-pat worker as it tries to find a suitably qualified local. But news that a Canadian had been recruited as a human resources officer at the government-owned […]
Cayman Airways plane damaged by private jet
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) has launched an investigation into an incident last week in which the newly purchased Cayman Airways Express Saab 340 aircraft was damaged by a private jet at the airport on Grand Cayman. A release Wednesday morning by the airline said that on the night of Thursday, 24 March, […]
CIAA ordered to release ‘go around’ records
(CNS): The acting information commissioner has ordered the Cayman Islands Airports Authority to release an Air Traffic Control (ATC) Occurrence Report and the recording relating to a ‘go-around’ incident at the airport last March. The CIAA refused to grant these following a freedom of information request in the wake of the incident but Jan Liebaers found in his […]
