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 :…

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…

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…

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…

Pilot training: Ryanair’s APCC

Following the pending MPL gutting (only the Spanish & French DGAC were against), and showcased only once in specialized media so far, another plan for the future of pilot training is emerging subsequently to a May 2015 meeting of the…

SDG – DG MOVE study on EMPL

Finalized this december 4th by Steer Davies Gleave‘s (SDG) associate Rosie Offord, expected for summer 015 as we were directly told by DG MOVE last May 22th, their “study on employment and working conditions in air transport and airports” is…

EC – decisive p2f answers

As reported three days ago, a p2f-dedicated meeting occured today dec.9th at 14h00 (Brussels local time) on DG Tran premises to present and engage in Q&A which, for the record, unfolded in accordance with the following canvas : The dice…

Frontrunning: december 6

As expected, DGAC’s lax initial ATO renewal decision officially backfired this Dec. 4th with SAT bankruptcy. 7 employees, 49 students and several hundred thousand euros in debt left in the wild. No DGAC officials to be held accountable. French AGEPAC…