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...Helios! Nå skifter dem ham, dropper ruteflygninger og prøver seg på ny frisk:
Helios Airways blir A-Jet (http://www.hangar.no/articles/780/1/Helios-Airways-blir-A-Jet)
Nok en gang: Same shit - new wrapping.
UPDATE: Blått holder stand, og ikke ser det så aller gale ut heller, men vet ikke om jeg ville flydd med dem av den grunn...
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1020096/L/
Stilig design med klar gresk profil...:up: Men tror også jeg venter medå teste dette selskapet...
alfajet fotografert i dag morges på MAN
http://www.ringwayreports.co.uk/5B-DBI_NF_200306.jpg
Kilde: RingwayReports (http://www.ringwayreports.co.uk/ringway.htm)
MountainDew
26-03-2006, 14:01
Er nok ikke så dumt å skifte navn!
Ajet, the new name of Helios Airways, was grounded by the Cypriot government as it was to begin low cost operations until liability issues are resolved.
http://www.justplanes.com/
nevermind
26-03-2006, 14:55
Har A-Jet fått ny AOC, eller flyr de på Helios sin AOC?
MountainDew
26-03-2006, 20:21
Officials in the Civil Aviation Department breached guidelines to secretly fast-track licensing for Helios Airways’ controversial successor ajet, the Communications Minister said this week.
Haris Thrassou said an internal investigation was underway to determine who inside the Department assisted ajet with its application for an Air Operations Certificate (AOC) without the licensing chief being told.
"There is the Flight Safety Section and the Licensing Section. For a certificate to be issued, both sections must work together. It appears that the application was being processed without one section being notified," Thrassou said.
"It seems the application was indeed being examined with excessive haste and this is what the investigating official is looking into."
Communications Ministry Makis Constantinides is heading the probe to also uncover why ajet’s paperwork was fast-tracked without the knowledge of Licensing Chief Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou.
On their part, ajet officials said they were led to believe by an "optimistic" Civil Aviation Department official that the airline would clinch all technical certification by March 17.
News of the rushed procedure had prompted fears tragedy-struck Helios was seeking to transform itself into a new airline and evade any liability over the August 14, 2005 crash of its Boeing 737-300 jet that claimed the lives of 121 passengers and crew.
Helios staunchly denied ajet’s creation sought to absolve it of any legal responsibilities the Greek-led investigation into the air disaster could pin on the airline.
In a statement, Helios said it would remain an active company despite winding down flight operations.
Moreover, Helios said any compensation claims would be covered by the airline’s insurers.
Thrassou confirmed a Phileleftheros report disclosing Hadjigeorgiou’s internal memo in which he said he had been kept out of the loop over ajet’s AOC application.
"Obscure procedures and purposely bypassing (Licensing) Section officials pose legal risks to the Department," Hadjigeorgiou said in the memo.
Hadjigeorgiou had come under fire in the immediate aftermath of the air disaster for blowing the whistle on deficiencies within Civil Aviation he said compromised air safety checks.
His March 13 memo came a day before Thrassou cancelled an ajet test flight to Rhodes – a necessary technical precursor to full certification for the low-cost charter airline to begin flights.
The test flight slated for March 17 would have been conducted with a Helios Boeing 737-800 in new, blue-and-white ajet livery, exacerbating concerns the airline was too quick to shed its tragedy-marred image.
Worse still was the flight number showing up on airport departure monitors under Helios’s old, ‘zU’ designation.
Ajet officials attributed that to an ‘oversight’ by airport officials who failed to delete that from the departures schedule.
Thrassou said he wasn’t up to speed on ajet’s application and conceded that given the highly sensitive nature of the issue, he should have been.
"I agree this application wasn’t an ordinary one. It should have been given special treatment and what happened was a mistake. The Communication Ministry’s Permanent Secretary and even the Minister should have been informed and opinions sought given the sensitivity of the issue," said Thrassou.
In a stark reminder of just how sensitive it is, a warning came from relatives of the disaster victims, who said they would have "reacted" had the test flight gone ahead.
Thrassou last week said ajet’s AOC application had been shelved until the Attorney General's office clears the airline of any outstanding liability issues from Helios.
mer:
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7856&heading=Local%20News
http://www.hangar.no/articles/839/1/Ajet-satt-p%E5-bakken
Jada, Kyprotiske myndigheter har tatt til fornuften og nektet Ajet å fly!