ASINA KOSNAN TA BAI DAE LAMENTS POSITION TAKEN BY SXM AIRPORT! Press Release Dutch Antilles Express 06 Augustus 2013 DAE laments unjust position taken by Sint Maarten airport Regina LaBega acts unethical Willemstad – The Director of the Sint Maarten airport decided that she wants DAE to immediately pay an old debt the company has with the Juliana International Airport (PJIA). She also chose to make publicly known the deliberations between the airport and DAE. DAE does not know what the Director’s intentions are. Now that DAE is confronting its current situation, the Director, Mrs. Labega also wants to take an intransigent position, by being a monopoly and act unprofessionally. This can also be considered unethical. To state the facts, on May 29, 2012, both parties PJIA and DAE came to an agreement to pay an old debt made by the former DAE management which PJIA did not collect at that time. The current DAE management agreed to pay the old debt in 36 installments. Based on this, DAE reduced this debt with more than 310.000 guilders, paying 13 installments. It’s true that DAE recently fell behind with 2 installments (months), the reasons are already known. Not PJIA decides that it doesn’t want to wait anymore and decided that it wants the debt to be repaid in only 5 to 7 installments. Thus, it reduced the amount with more than 4 to 6 times from what was agreed upon in May of last year. Right now when DAE is going through a tough time, PJIA unilaterally has decided to impose a condicio sine qua non. Even more, if DAE does not comply, DAE will not be able to fly to Sint Maarten anymore and they will request bankruptcy through the court. If that is not enough, after a member of the DAE management flew to Sint Maarten to personally deliberate with the PJIA authorities, the Director Mrs. LaBega released information from the meeting between the parties in her own distorted words. Once more, it is not known with what purpose this was done. DAE wants to maintain itself to the former agreement. Because DAE fell behind with two payments from the old debt, DAE offered to pay these in one month, in August, included the costs of last month and current month to get things back in order. This entails a not so small amount to be paid in one month so that the problems can be solved. DAE reiterates that it cannot comply with a demand imposed by a monopolist, which it cannot pay. DAE will continue to deliberate with the competent authorities in Sint Maarten to reach an agreement which is just and to continue serving the loyal passengers to and from that destination and to avoid having to stop serving the Sint Maarten market. DAE does not have other words for that abuses mentioned above, imposed by a unilateral monopolistic party and it hopes that both parties can reach an agreement soon to clear the abovementioned situation. Whatever the decision may be, DAE wants to reiterate that it will defend the interests of its passengers, in Sint Maarten, Santo Domingo and Curacao which DAE has been transporting to and from the island of Sint Maarten.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:14:49 +0000
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