Chris you don't seem to have yet got your head around the intricacies of living in one of the smallest countries in the world, and it's lack of income. A huge percentage of the population struggle to put food on their plates, have electricity or running water, a school to send their kids. Sorry but lol at subsidsing the airlines given the state of our finances unless it's done privately.

Your fear is correct because there is nothing they can do except what they already have/are. Lobby. How else do you tell someone, that you have no leverage over, that your prices are too high. Make an appointment with Mike Singh CEO BTB and talk to him. I was in your camp until I sat and listened to him one day at a meeting here in San Pedro. Yes he could be full of it, but what he said made logical sense.

I'm not saying give up, but face the reality it's going to be decades until it changes. I AM saying in the mean time lets concentrate on the things we can control and change RIGHT NOW.

Not certain on this but I think PGIA is completely privately owned. They extended the runway so physically Jumbos, or long haul jets can land. They have now done what I imagine they had to contractually in the purchase. However, no airline on the planet will fly big jets here until there is a hotel large enough to overnight the whole plane in case of problems. We don't have a single hotel that big. That will take a major player to build and they won't come because..........yep there are no large jets flying in to fill up their rooms.

Stay small, nimble and agile and offer more and something different. I like less people paying more and so do these type of tourist. Yes airline prices this high and are not good for business but I'd rather have them high than at Cancun prices - silver lining in everything.

Nowhere else can match us in Belize if we market it right. Yes we're probably at or even past saturation point. Those that are preparing to open new ventures better look long and hard and have a plan as should all the existing.

I hope you don't feel I'm picking on you and many others will also blindly or ignorantly (harsh word, take it in the right context please) blame BTB BTIA - even GOB