BWIA blamed for starting price war By Curtis Williams Express 04.02.03 Caribbean Star has accused BWIA and Liat of waging a price war on intra-regional routes, which has itself led to the almost financial ruin of Liat. The airline's chief executive officer, Paul Moreira, told the Express that the price war which has seen low fares on both carriers was started by BWIA and it, along with Liat, should be brought to book for it. Moreira, who along with Caribbean Star's owner, Allen Stanford, met last Friday with Prime Minister Patrick Manning, said they presented evidence to Manning that it was BWIA which started the "predatory pricing". He said: "For years now this has been BWIA's approach to competition and we saw it starkly when Air Jamaica started flying from Kingston to Piarco. BWIA started flying directly to Jamaica, slashed their prices and then drove the airline off the route. When that was accomplished they promptly returned to their old route and doubled the fares." Moreira said this was also done by BWIA when Air Caribbean started flying the Miami route. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week:http://www.ttsailing.org/ TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************