EQUATORIAL GUINEA REVOKES OPERATING LICENSES
Announced in the news that Equatorial Guinea Minister of Transport today revoked all but one Air Services Licenses and AOC's.
The step follows an inspection and scrutiny by the South African CAA to assist with cleaning-up the EG register after concerns about the condition of and widescale abuse of the EG register.
Hopefully this is an important step to start cleaning up Africa's aviation image that will improve standards in Africa and serve as a start to clean up this previously and other registries of convenience that has given our industry such a negative reputation.
Wonder who's next, Swaziland ? - Dem Republic of Congo could certainly also do with a shake-up. Getting rid of all these otherwise unregulatable aircraft that cannot be registered anywhere else might just create more opportunity for sincere african operators to get access to opportunities that these pirates hog at rock-bottom rates which are impossible to compete with on an equal footing.