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Frontrunning: May 16
Small Planet Airlines : German AOC secured 3 days ago to fly for tour operators TUI and Thomas Cook, echoing controversial strike-breaking wet-lease with Norwegian. Soon more p2f in Germany (in the footsteps of Cockpit4U and Germania) ? Ryanair : internal sources reveal upcoming APCC agreement for new cadets. Roll-out date undisclosed. 6-year agency pilot…
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Avia Solutions Group – sirens aren’t real
Already getting media attention for all the wrong reasons, one of our readers drew our attention on the Avia Solutions Group. As a reminder, the Lithuanian holding (overseeing 20 services firm) owns the largest eastern p2f cashing machine known to date: Lithuanian AviationCV, the advertizer Cypriot Pilot Management Services, the lender Lithuanian Baltic Aviation Academy,…
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Royal Air Maroc p2f scandal
This March 23 aired a French TV report about p2f notably (with our proud participation), exposing Small Planet Airlines, Vietjet and Royal Air Maroc among the offenders. We knew since 2012 Royal Air Maroc (RAM) was involved in pay-to-fly, selling 500 work hours 14,000€ through its subsidiary RAM Express via the Toulouse base of the…
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Frontrunning: February 29
Pilot “shortage” : ABN AMRO to officially discontinue pilot training financing in Sept.2016 (after admitting weak pilot job prospects in 2012) “Under the current conditions, this activity no longer fits in with [our] product offering”. fd. : “The job market for pilots is so bad that the banks do not see much incentive to finance…