After being notified by the Government, the airline Flybondi ordered its cancellations, but did not eliminate them. During the holiday week, that is, from December 24 to 31, the low cost will cancel 71 flights, affecting about 13,000 passengers.
The Aviation site in Argentina published a document from the ANAC with the flight cancellation form which lists the services that the airline will not provide from December 24 to 31.
During the last few weeks, the Government encouraged low cost due to the increase in delays and cancellations registered in the last month. In fact, the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) demanded the company present a plan to solve these problems.
The Government intimated Flybondi
Government informed the airline that adjust flight requests that sends to the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) to its actual operational capacity, “avoiding offering flights that it cannot guarantee or operate effectively“.
Likewise, the statement defended the Deregulation and Open Skies policy in search of “greater efficiency in the air sector, without affecting the rights of passengers.”
A far from minor issue is that the cancellations and delays in airline flights not only complicate things for users, but are directly harming the entire tourism industry.. For example, last week, in a joint statement, the members of the chambers of Tourism and Commerce and Industry and the Hotel and Gastronomic Business Association of Bariloche expressed “its deep concern at the repeated cancellations of flights operated by Flybondi to and from this city.”
Meanwhile, the company provides very brief reasons for so many cancellations and delays in its flights. In general terms, the company alleges that the inconveniences are due to “operational issues linked to fleet availability.”
The truth is that frequent cancellations have been a constant in Flybondi’s operation, which generated a wave of complaints from passengers. In this framework, the ANAC issued three violation reports to the airline, reflecting a problematic history in compliance with aviation sector regulations.
Flybondi used a workshop suspended by ANAC to repair airplanes
The airline Flybondi has been in the spotlight in recent weeks. While the Government analyzes the plan presented by the company to reduce the number of suspended and canceled flightsIn recent days, documents have emerged detailing that the company carried out maintenance on some of its aircraft in a workshop that was suspended by the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC).
In detail, the ANAC temporarily suspended the Flybondi workshop at the Ministerio Pistarini International Airport (Ezeiza) last October 4th. However, on the 24th of the same month, the governing body of civil aviation had to inform the lowcost company to comply with its suspension since it had detected that the airline carried out maintenance tasks on different aircraft in the sanctioned location.
Flybondi’s breach
According to documents released by ANAC, the Argentine low-cost airline initially carried out maintenance on at least 3 aircraft (LV-KDR, LV-KDQ and LV-KE) 20 days after receiving the sanction from the national administration. Despite the injunction, the authorities confirmed that the company continued to carry out tasks on more airplanes in the Ezeiza workshop, in contrast to the suspension and injunction by the state entity.
As detailed by the ANAC, despite the company’s failure to comply with the administration’s orders, the company was never at risk. aircraft operational safety because the sanction was due to issues related to administrative breaches: errors in maintenance records, lack of traceability of parts and aeronautical material, etc. Beyond this, the national organization stated that no deficiencies were found in the maintenance tasks carried out on the planes.
The sanction was finally lifted on November 14. However, the ANAC ordered the company to recertify airplanes that had been reviewed in his Ezeiza workshop while he was suspended. On the other hand, the agency plans to carry out a new inspection to verify compliance with the actions ordered to lift the sanctions.
Source: Ambito
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