00:00they come and open an incomplete airport because a man who want to put his name on a plaque
00:06but the airport was never completed i toured that facility right now in the old airport
00:15it is much more advanced when it comes to getting fuel for planes in the old airport
00:22they have fuel lines running under the tarmac and the planes can easily have access to fuel
00:29in this new airport you know what has to happen they have to take a truck to bring and fill up a
00:36plane and one of those big planes like like uh british airways will need at least two truck loads
00:44to full the u.s 129 million dollar anr robinson international airport was commissioned back in
00:52march and according to mr augustine a lot of work still needs to be done now this is an airport that
00:59they claim could carry three million visitors a year how much planes we could really get on the
01:05ground at one time if it is we had to fill up a plane by truck in this day and age in 2025 and
01:13the top of the bill good airport airport finish incomplete mr augustine said works and infrastructure
01:19minister julian john is working towards retrofitting the facility to meet the needs of end users as
01:27furniture needs to be procured when you walk to the airport they still have to procure furniture
01:34the new airport i had a meeting a visit to my office from the the taxi drivers uh who operate on the
01:43airport and i was shocked when they tell me that they have less taxi spaces on the new airport than the
01:51old airport and they're telling them to park upon the old airport and to come in the new airport get a
01:57visitors and go back down for they can't come back that's the new airport he added there are inconveniences
02:05for staff of the airport's authority for the new airport staff has to staff have to pack down on the
02:12old airport and they have to shuttle the staff up so you know if a staff member forget the food in the
02:17car forget the phone in the car then they have to tell the supervisor i want to go back down to get
02:23me stuff and come back again how that impacting productivity and they said they build a new airport
02:29so they tell the airport ready to open the lie the practical commissioning of the new
02:34anr robinson international airport occurred in march a month before the april 28th general election
02:42under the previous pnm government elizabeth williams tv6 news
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