{"id":40053,"date":"2013-09-27T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=40053"},"modified":"2013-09-27T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T14:00:27","slug":"private-management-plans-for-abaco-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/private-management-plans-for-abaco-airport","title":{"rendered":"Private Management Plans For Abaco Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40054\" title=\"marsh-harbour-airport\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/marsh-harbour-airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/marsh-harbour-airport.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/marsh-harbour-airport-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Seeking private management, the Ministry of Transport and Aviation invited qualified Bahamian companies to present bids for the management, development and operation of the Marsh Harbour Airport in Abaco.<\/p>\n<p>The bid was announced four months ago and three companies have responded.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Philip \u201cBrave\u201d Davis said this is a step towards ensuring that all Family Island airports become self sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would reduce the strain on the public purse and simultaneously, generate a new revenue stream for the government,\u201d Davis said, pointing to what he called an \u201cunsustainable\u201d current model.<\/p>\n<p>The airport is currently in the midst of a major expansion project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking private management, the Ministry of Transport and Aviation invited qualified Bahamian companies to present bids for the management, development and operation of the Marsh Harbour Airport in Abaco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103,242],"class_list":["post-40053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-abaco","tag-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}