How is "the owner" defined ? I do fly for a public limited company (EASA NCC), who is the owner there ? Any stockholder theoretically owns a piece of the airplane I guess ?
I have a flight to the UK next week and was asked about the owner/pax/nature of the flight - we replied with statement #2 out of 3 possible:
Flights with aircraft with a MTOW of less than 45,500kg, owned by a company for the carriage of own staff and non-fare paying passengers and goods as an aid to the conduct of company business
Please State the Company here “ XXX ltd “
Statement 1 would have been:
Flights with aircraft with a MTOW of less the 45,500kg, for the carriage of the owner of the aircraft and of non-fare paying passengers and goods
Please state the owner here “ “
Statement 3:
Your passengers are fare paying for this flight “Aircraft requires security screening for departure”
And yes, NCC is private ops.