St Helena Airport
opened one year ago. I covered it at the time:
http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/11/flying-to-st-helena.html.
As you can see in the poster above, it has achieved a lot, including two flights on
average every week. The number of people who have passed through the airport
exceeds the population of the island by a full half. As you can see when those
figures are broken down, almost three quarters of those people are visitors to
the island; the remainder are natives. This indicates that I was correct in my
predictions in the background links below.
St Helena has
indeed been opened out to the world. The island is still importing more than it exports by a factor of about four to one. It's still too soon to gauge the long-term
outcome of this project, but the general mood of the Saints, based on their
social media contribution, is positive. I obtained the above tableau from a
Tweet by the territory's governor Lisa Honan. This is not the end of my report;
I will be posting more updates.
2 comments:
Why don't you just leave them alone?
Why? Do the Saints object to my tanks driving up their beach?
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