Business View Caribbean l March 2023

92 maintenance agreements, IT services, etc. The relationships extend to international service providers like Amadeus and Oracle, all of whom we work with as vendors to provide equipment and other suppliers to keep the facilities running. Local service providers are also on our customer list, including taxi and hotel operators and other vendors who operate within airport facilities. We consider all these parties our customers to varying degrees. Business View Magazine: What activities represent the primary revenue drivers for the authority? Godfrey Smith: Passengers are the authority’s biggest revenue driver. Most basic tariffs link in the ordinance, four statutes. Due to this, passenger taxes generate revenues for the authority and government. operators (FBOs) who pay for land leases. These kinds of stakeholder arrangements occur up and down the supply chain, including, for example, taxi operators, who pay the authority for security badges and clearances, airlines Added to these revenue sources are maintenance and service agreements with airlines, all of which translate into Business View Magazine: Is the TCIAA the only authority within the aviation space in the country? Godfrey Smith: Yes. As a government agency, we are the sole entity that operates the airports in the Turks and Caicos Islands, so we don’t have a