{"id":400390,"date":"2023-10-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=400390"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Ogo-Landing-fee-hikes-will-practically-kill-tourism-on-Rota-Tinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Ogo-Landing-fee-hikes-will-practically-kill-tourism-on-Rota-Tinian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogo: Landing fee hikes will practically kill tourism on Rota, Tinian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Ports Authority\u2019s decision to increase the landing fees of airlines using the CNMI\u2019s airports will practically kill the Commonwealth\u2019s tourism industry especially on Rota and Tinian, according to Rep. Julie A. Ogo (Ind-Rota).<\/p>\n<p>Ogo noted that all tourists coming to the CNMI have to enter Guam or Saipan first and then connect to Rota and Tinian via a single interisland carrier, hence the need for any subsidy that the CNMI may tap into.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker talked about the decision to increase the landing fees in her recent letter to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP), where she sought assistance in pursuing the designation of Rota as an Essential Air Service area.<\/p>\n<p>Ogo said she is deeply concerned with the cost of medical air travel and evacuation services as well as the effect on commodity prices that are already exorbitant, as it is and will likely escalate exponentially once the new landing fees are implemented.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that sea vessels remain unreliable in delivering goods to Rota due to inclement weather and equipment failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are all devastating impacts on our people\u2019s livelihoods,\u201d Ogo said.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/660298a5d45aa0cb7d122c750661be6d.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Julie Ogo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Ports Authority\u2019s decision to increase the landing fees of airlines using the CNMI\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}