(Guyana Graphic December 11, 1968)
The Guyana Airways Corporation scheduled sir service between Atkinson field and Mackenzie will be discontinued from today, it has been announced.
A spokesman for the corporation said that with the 45 mile Atkinson-Mackenzie highway now being opened to the public, it was felt desirable to withdraw scheduled flights between the two points.
However charter flights are not affected by the decision it was stated.
Regular air flights to Mackenzie began shortly after the second World War when Mackenzie was then the only civil airport and air flights to Guyana landed there and passengers were ferried to the city by Grumman planes which used both Mackenzie airport and the Demerara River off the Ruimveld Ramp.
Later the Grumman plane operated from Atkinson Field to Mackenzie .
Of more recent times the DC-3 and the Twin Otter did the run.
