Fiji Sun, 23 March – Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum yesterday hit out at Opposition attacks in Parliament against Fiji Airways.
He said the attacks showed a lack of fundamental knowledge of economics and commercial markets.
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum told the House some of the practices of the then Air Pacific under past governments did not make financial sense.
This included leasing a Boeing 767 for which US$1million was paid a month. A Boeing 747 was leased at US$650,000 per month.
He explained that it was the Bainimarama Government and later the FijiFirst Government which put its faith in the national carrier and in fact saw the need to support the national carrier to quickly modernise its fleet and to buy the Airbus A330s it now operates. Read more…
