Following the liquidation of Air Guyane, an air bridge is created in France’s largest department

The judicial liquidation, on Friday, of the airline company Air Guyane, which provided air services in this landlocked territory, deprives nearly 30,000 inhabitants of mobility, a crisis situation that the State and the Guyanese Executive are trying to alleviate.

In France’s largest department, the prefecture anticipated the interruption of air connections serving municipalities not connected by road and installed an air bridge after the announcement of the liquidation of the airline.

Several hundred thousand euros

State missions to transport food, medicine and medical evacuations are now carried out by state air means. A first flight, to transport 350 kilos of food, supplied the town of Saül (center) on Friday, which can only be accessed by air.

“These air bridges are complemented by occasional rotations depending on the missions of the gendarmes or the armed forces, which take advantage of them to ship material,” said the prefecture of Guyana, which centralizes requests and coordinates resources within a crisis cell.

The passengers will be transported starting Thursday by a 19-seater plane from the Chalair company, chartered by the Territorial Collective of Guyana (CTG) and intended for “people with an emergency reason to travel,” indicated the president of the CTG, Gabriel Serville. , in a video aimed at the population.

“An emergency public service delegation”

Asked on Tuesday in the National Assembly in Paris by the Guyanese elected official Davy Rimane about the breakdown of territorial continuity, the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, assured the support of the State of the Territorial Collective of Guyana, competent to find new suppliers of services.

“In the next three weeks, we will create an emergency public services delegation (DSP), which will report to the CTG. “We will give technical support so that there are no interruptions” in the supply, Beaune said.

The call for consultation for this emergency DSP, which will last for a maximum period of seven months, “is launched so that airlines can quickly position themselves to guarantee the necessary rotations,” the CTG said in a statement.