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Suriname's Gum Air orders one Cessna SkyCourier

Gum Air (GUM, Paramaribo Zorg en Hoop) has ordered a single Cessna 408 SkyCourier from Cessna Aircraft Company/Textron Aviation with delivery slated for 2023 as it hopes to capitalise on the expansion of the oil and gas sector in neighbouring Guyana and French Guiana.

"With the current construction of a new 3,600-foot runway at Heliport Paramaribo, we can utilize the SkyCourier for flights between Paramaribo, Georgetown Cheddi Jagan, Port of Spain, and Cayenne. Due to the development of the oil and gas industry in the Guyanas, we see potential growth in this market. We have been operating daily flights with the Cessna (single turboprop) C208 Caravan between Paramaribo and Georgetown since 2009, and this addition is the logical step for us," Director Dean Gummels said.

Gum Air plans to use the aircraft for both cargo and passenger operations. In the initial stage, it will deploy it mostly on its Paramaribo Zorg en Hoop-Georgetown trunk route. It will also use it to ramp up its charter operations...

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Guyana Airlines eyes June flights to Cuba, North America

Start-up carrier Guyana Airways (Georgetown Cheddi Jagan) plans to lease two A340s from Portugal and is looking at Cuba and North American destinations, reports The Guyana Chronicle. Guyana has been without a national carrier since the failure of Guyana Airways (1963) (Georgetown Cheddi Jagan) in 2001 and its brief successor Guyana Air 2000 (Georgetown Cheddi Jagan) in 2003.

A Facebook group called "Guyana Airways Returns 2016" reported in March that it had hit a snag in its application for an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority. The Guyana Chronicle reports that because there is no Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) between Guyana and Portugal, the airline's plans to lease aircraft from a Portuguese carrier have been put on hold. The news site had also previously reported that the aircraft to be leased were A340s.

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