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Yorkshire Airways · 14th April 2009, 14:22

Paul Crowther and Direct Fly/Rent Jets.

How confusing, a Polish AOC oeprator with no jets listed on their AOC, only DA42's, yet as I look on Avinode I find a fleet of Citations offered for charter under Direct Fly's AOC, interesting!

Now when I delve deeper I see that to contact Direct Fly/Rent Jets postal address is AVTEC at Biggin Hill, just a drop PO BOX where mail is collected weekly, then I look to see where their accounts department is, all I have is a Bradford telephone number, even more oddly it is also the recption for the company. More strangely is that the head office is at Maritime House in Hove, the old Mitre Aviation/Plane Chartering hub.

So obviously Direct Fly and Rents Jets are already sending people on the run around but more disturbingly would you fly on one of these jets when they are not on an AOC.

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/1196/20071...PRCampaign.pdf

The CAA take enormous fees from legitimate AOC operators who have to abide by the rules, so why are they oblivious and deliberately blind to this underhand operation being undertaken by PC.

I watch with interest.

14th April 2009, 14:22	#14 (permalink)
Yorkshire Airways Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 12	Paul Crowther and Direct Fly/Rent Jets. How confusing, a Polish AOC oeprator with no jets listed on their AOC, only DA42's, yet as I look on Avinode I find a fleet of Citations offered for charter under Direct Fly's AOC, interesting! Now when I delve deeper I see that to contact Direct Fly/Rent Jets postal address is AVTEC at Biggin Hill, just a drop PO BOX where mail is collected weekly, then I look to see where their accounts department is, all I have is a Bradford telephone number, even more oddly it is also the recption for the company. More strangely is that the head office is at Maritime House in Hove, the old Mitre Aviation/Plane Chartering hub. So obviously Direct Fly and Rents Jets are already sending people on the run around but more disturbingly would you fly on one of these jets when they are not on an AOC. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/1196/20071...PRCampaign.pdf The CAA take enormous fees from legitimate AOC operators who have to abide by the rules, so why are they oblivious and deliberately blind to this underhand operation being undertaken by PC. I watch with interest. Last edited by Yorkshire Airways : 15th April 2009 at 14:32.