For one week, a dig­i­tal cam­paign promised a new era of ef­fi­cien­cy at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port—a seam­less merg­er of do­mes­tic and in­ter­na­tion­al de­par­tures aimed at bring­ing in­ter-is­land trav­el in line with glob­al avi­a­tion stan­dards.

But at 5.39 am yes­ter­day, just 24 hours af­ter the me­dia was in­vit­ed to a rib­bon-cut­ting cer­e­mo­ny, the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (AATT) is­sued a state­ment say­ing the plan had been post­poned “un­til fur­ther no­tice.”

The ini­tia­tive had been out­lined days ear­li­er in an April 18 me­dia re­lease, in which the au­thor­i­ty said it was in­tro­duc­ing changes to the do­mes­tic pas­sen­ger jour­ney aimed at im­prov­ing ef­fi­cien­cy and align­ing op­er­a­tions with in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards.