No new CEO at BWIA

Corporate Communications Manager at BWIA, Clint Williams, has denied reports in another daily newspaper that veteran airline executive, Nelson Tom Yew, will be officially appointed as the airline’s new Chief Executive Officer.

Williams also denied claims that current chairman, Lawrence Duprey, was expected to tender his resignation by the end of the week. “There has been no such appointment,” he said. “There has been no such activity. When these appointments do occur, the Board of Directors will make appropriate statements.” When questioned as to whether flights had returned to normal after the two BWIA planes which were impounded in Miami last week returned to service, he replied that for the most part they were running as normal, as well as on time. However, he admitted that customer confidence was still a “grey area. “It will take time for confidence levels to return to their previous state,” he said, “and we are hoping that it rises again before the summer — our peak period. “However, we continue to operate and hope that our customers base their confidence on reality,” he said. Yesterday, MP Ken Valley, the Minister responsible for BWIA, told the media that operations at the airline have been normalised.