Sunday, April 03, 2022

Maintenance problems

Roberts International Airport has some maintenance problems. Planes have had to divert to other countries because the power to run the landing lights wasn't working.
On March 28, 2022, President Weah and other government officials were greeted with darkness upon their arrival into the country from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where they had gone to participate in EXPO DUBAI 2020.

On March 29, travellers again were compelled to use the torch of their respective phones to provide light in the terminals at the airport.

We'd had a goal of getting to Liberia sometime this year, but it sounds more and more fraught. Next year is election season, which sometimes gets a bit kinetic; there's an unexpected complexity that may take a little time to resolve, the crime rate is way up and several of the hopeful travelers aren't well. And Air France is dropping the route. If Brussels Airlines and Royal Air Maroc give up... I notice that the much-balleyhooed flight from the US seems not to be there anymore. (I think it was Delta, but my memory is fuzzy.)

UPDATE wrt the crime rate: "the incident occurred when Kolubah had refused to give additional money to the motorcyclist as transport fare which prompted others around the scene to allegedly term him a criminal. According to him, within no time, angry crowd murdered the Marshall without analyzing the situation." Was he cheating or being cheated? Stories differ--but the crowd lynched him anyway.

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