Air Jamaica was a loss to Jamaica from the outset; it is never an asset, but rather a burden to Jamaica's taxpayers.

I can remember when The Gleaner was at Harbour Street. Leandro was our favoured cartoonist, he drew a picture of Air Jamaica with its mouth wide open and the then Government, standing before the plane and pushing millions of English pounds down the throat of the plane. The cartoon said, "Hi, what a way you a feed 'im and yet 'im can't fat."

From those days this airline has been a burden to us. Jamaica doesn't need any national airline, neither for prestige nor otherwise, and if the previous Government could find a buyer, they should not only sell a part of the route but the whole lot, stock and barrel of it.

Let those who can make it payable run it, and since Virgin Air bought it from a duly elected Jamaican Government, be it JLP or PNP, it is done.

- A. A. White, Jesus Witness Ministries, Hartfield P.O., Manchester