Time To Fire The Board of Air Seychelles Domestic Airlines

Air Seychelles Domestic airlines, is a national air carrier for interisland connections and is run by a Board of Directors. As a national air carrier that is tasked with insuring efficient, cost effective transfers to Praslin with onward ferry transfers to La Digue, Denis Island, Bird Island, Desroches Island and other islands, Air Seychelles Domestic plays an integral part in the Seychelles Tourism Industry.
What Happened To Cost Effective Service?
In theory, if Air Seychelles can provide cost effective inter-island transfers, and do so efficiently and meet demand at an acceptable cost, the interisland domestic section should flourish. If it does, it means that the inner islands and outer islands should flourish.
Unfortunately, it is not the case. Apparently the Board of Directors of Air Seychelles Domestic only has excuses as to why the domestic arm of Air Seychelles does not work.
There are no answers, only excuses and a systematic blame game in play. But at the end of the day, when all the excuses have made the round table, it is the Board of Directors collectively, that is responsible for decisions and the lack of them.
Basically the buck falls right on their table collectively. They cannot pass the buck. They are coward to blame each other, and they are coward to blame the staff of Air Seychelles Domestic. Air Seychelles Domestic fails, while they fly Pearl Class and sip on Moet Champagne and bite into little breads covered in caviar in the skies of the World, at our expense.
Because they the Board of Directors of Air Seychelles Domestic cannot take necessary decisions to insure that Air Seychelles Domestic works and works well for the Tourism Industry, they should be fired, sacked, be given their marching papers, and possibly seek a post on the Board of Directors of SPTC, if the SPTC would have them. I doubt SPTC would waste their time.
IMF AUDIT of Air Seychelles Domestic
This year the IMF concerned itself via accounting tool called: AUDIT of Air Seychelles Domestic after concerns of the Tourism Trade on pricing of interisland flights were addressed. I attended these IMF consultations, to help my country.
It is suspected that the pricing practice of inter-island flights had the impact of prejudicing interisland destinations like Praslin, La Digue, Denis Island and Bird Island. Tickets to these destinations had increased by as much as 50% while the price of fuel dropped by the same percentage on the world market due to lack of world demand and over supply, corresponding to a drop in world production as factories went quiet in most countries.
Fuel Cheap But Paper Clips Expensive
Air Seychelles I am told attributed the higher costs to increase in administrative costs and increase cost of maintaining a fleet of aging planes. I have been told that there is a substantial costing- factored into general administration of the dinky little operation of 4 or 5 planes on any day at the most. However, because I cannot access the audit of Air Seychelles Domestic, I cannot confirm that for you.
Hide The Audit, Pin Tail On The Donkey!
The Audit has been hidden from the Public, allegedly because the Air Seychelles Domestic section of the Air Seychelles books is in such a mess, that if we were to hold the Board of Directors of Air Seychelles fully accountable for the morass, they would all face personal bankruptcy. Some may even face jail time if put to task. Now, the People of Seychelles would not have that.
In a democracy, wherein the public purse and interest is placed in the hands of a few glorified seat warmers that do not produce positive results, if AUDITS are not made Public, then the seat warmers in the case of the Board of Directors of Air Seychelles Domestic, must be fired. We can only reasonably assume it is a mess, since the Board of Directors cannot do anything about it.
If We Keep Them - What?
If we keep them, then we accept failure of the Tourism Industry as a fait accompli and we may as well ask the banks to move in, take over the Front Desk of hotels in Seychelles.
Che Guevera Acknowledges Failure of Revolution 2 hrs. Before We Run Out of Fuel in 2008
Late bloomers to Freedom and followers of the Free Market have trouble understanding how the Free Market works. When they jump on board the Free Market bandwagon, they shout and scream Free Market everywhere, so people think they have changed. But the Free market, in its totality has an instinct to it; many Che Guevara’s of the world do not understand or trust that instinct. This is the source of their failures, when they do try to change the world over.
Seychelles is not an exception to this mistrust and is the cause of deep failures unless addressed. In Seychelles, our Che Guevara (James Alix Michel) took us to 2 hours before we ran out of fuel to declare that Seychelles had in fact gone bankrupt on October 31, 2008.
Today, our Che Guevara is doing the same thing all over again with Air Seychelles Domestic: taking the failure to the last 2 hours, before total collapse of a public transport system.
The same happened to SPTC before the Sheik Khalifa gave us some buses to keep moving.
The same will happen to the interisland ferries, if they are not recognized as indispensible public transportation sector in the prolonged downturn we are going through, and given some reasonable tax credit on fuel consumption, to keep the service on time, every day, numerous times a day, at a reasonable price, that is acceptable to the entire market. Air Seychelles Domestic is no different.
What Next Comrade Che?
My advice to Che is this:
1. Fire the Board of Air Seychelles Domestic;
2. Hire a New Board, with mandate to secure and enhance quality of service of Air Seychelles Domestic, by seeking new venture capital fully bona fide Seychellois national interests- open share subscription to the public now make them a part of Air Seychelles Domestic, so they stop taking the boat;
3. Do not sell Air Seychelles Domestic to Emirates, Qatar, or ITIHAD, please;
4. Make sure the New Board is made up of men and/or women with brains and back bone;
5. If one component is missing, do not make the appointment to the Board;
6. Separate Domestic from International and let it fly!
After you have replaced the Air Seychelles Domestic with men/women of back bone and brains, do the same at Air Seychelles International I am sure the problems are the same, over paying for paper clips.
If they are the same people and same problem, just kill two (2) birds with one (1) stone. Same people, same problems? Only another AUDIT will clear that up.
Put on your combat gear and on your bike Che!

Sesel Pou Seselwa!
May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!