The establishment of a Civil Aviation Authority, which is in the works, will see the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) one step closer to reaching Category 1 status.This was disclosed by Senior Minister and Minister of Energy and Business Development, Kerrie Symmonds as he led off debate on the Civil Aviation Bill 2022, in Parliament on Tuesday morning.He acknowledged that the GAIA would not be given Category 1 status until Barbados had its own flag carrier. However, Symmonds said, that should not prevent the Government from making all the other necessary improvements required for the airport to attain that status.“That we may not have our own flag carrier today should not be a bar or inhibition for us doing the heavy lifting now to get us to the point where we are certified as being as close to Category 1 as we can be. And that is the mission that we are on and that is the message I am offering to the country,” the senior minister said.
