Originally Posted by
Consol
Nope. You're mixing up ops specs. I work for a legacy carrier. We have one AOC in state of registry. We comply with relevant ops specs in other countries. We do not have 40+ AOCs. Should we cease operations immediately?
Foreign operators require approval by the State concerned to conduct transport operations within that State's territory. The approval process is essentially a validation of the operator's AOC and in some countries (eg Australia, Canada, Malaysia) the approval document is known as a 'Foreign AOC'.