Just have taken the time to translate what it says on Air Madrids website:
Air Madrid LINEAS AIR INC., before the very serious situation by the one that crosses, as a result of the measures in fact adopted by the Public Administration, concretely the General Direction of Civil Aviation, clerk of the Department of Promotion, puts in knowledge of the public opinion the following facts:
FIRST.- In the month of August of 2006 an inspection of our company on the part of the competent Services of the General Direction of Civil Aviation was initiated (DGAC)
To our judgment, was a matter of an ordinary inspection of the ones that are carried out to the Air Companies. To this conclusion should be arrived, necessarily, if we keep in mind that the month of May was renewed the Certificate of Air User (AOC)
Besides, in a position dated May 18, 2006 the own General Direction of Civil Aviation, had declared in writing directed to our company that itself not any discrepancy during the Audiences carried out according to the Program of Caution Continued had been found absolutely to Air Madrid.
SECOND.- nevertheless the previous thing, the General Direction of Civil Aviation, decided to start expedient of suspension of the License of Air Madrid and communicated to the same one the discrepancies indicated by the Service of Inspection.
The procedure has continued its processing and is found in phase of final resolution by the competent Agency for it.
Air Madrid has collaborated efficient and loyally with the DGAC. It has completed scrupulously with as many corrective measures taxes were him and al day of today complies in a complete way all the requirements so that its licenses continue in vigor and fully efficient to operate in the routes that at present exploits.
THIRD.- nevertheless, the Department of Promotion, through the DGAC has carried out a series of actions, doing an arbitrary and unjust use of its attributions that have situated in fact, although not yet of right, to Air Madrid, in an absolute impossibility of developing with the normality required its activity.
From among these actions in fact, with absolute oversight of the duty of confidentiality of the administrative actions, they are able reseñarse as more important the following:
1.- there has been a constant filtration to the mass media of all the essential aspects of the process and inspection, that have gone generating progressively, an absolutely unwarranted social alarm. All it, despite that, as the same one Mr. Hernández Crowned (responsible for Security in flight of the DGAC) affirmed only yesterday: "No airplane flies, never never, without security".
2.- The own Department of Promotion edited, December 11 a press release in which transferred to the mass media the possible decision to suspend the license of Air Madrid, prejudging of evident form the result of the procedure and extending to the public opinion this prejudice.
As it was foreseeable all the mass media (press written, radio and television) were echoed of the same one.
3.- The same authority aeronatics organized a distribution of pamphlets among the passengers of Air Madrid, in the Airport of Madrid-Packs, in which is affirmed officially that the Department of Promotion has open expedient to Air Madrid and that "if in said expedient was verified that Air Madrid has broken the Plan of corrective actions……..el Department of Promotion will agree the suspension of the operations of Air Madrid"
It adds the note that "The passenger should value the convenience or not to initiate trips of departure whose flight of return with Air Madrid was predicted in December of 2006…."
Likewise placards were installed with the same content in the counters of shipment of Air Madrid.
These actions are distant a lot to be adjusted to the conduct that the Public Administration should maintain in a democracy, in which is supposed that the action of all, included the Department of Promotion this submitted to the Law and has favored a social alarm of the one that have done themselves echo the mass media.
Be worth to holder of regular examples and expressions as the ones that continue, repeated in press, radio and television:
"The inspectors of Civil Aviation support the suspension of the license of Air Madrid"
"Air Madrid hurries its finalizes opportunity of salvation"
Promotion will withdraw the license to Air Madrid on Saturday"
"The Government advises the passengers that do not fly with Air Madrid to Latin America and to Rumania"
FOURTH.- All these facts do already absolutely unimportant that the Department of Promotion adopt a resolution, supported in right, on the maintenance or not from the TO. OR. C. of Air Madrid, since in fact, has obtained, through absolutely arbitrary actions, that have destroyed, completely, the commercial image of Air Madrid, to situate to our company in a very serious crisis of every order, that impedes him to develop its.
To these effects can be told that, without having there been a resolution defininitiva of the administrative procedure under way, the following consequences have been produced:
1 .- the telephones of Air Madrid have been blocked with calls of our suppliers alarmed to be able to know cuial is the situation in which their credits with the company are found. Likewise, the great majority of them they have suspended the supplies of goods and services that came lending to Air Madrid before the situation of alarm created.
2.- The bills sale level of our company has descended of alarming form. It can be told, so that serve as an example, that in Buenos Aires they came being invoiced of the order from among 750 to 1.000 daily bills, having reduced in the last days to between forty and fifty sales of bills.
On the other hand has raised itself proportionally the numbers of cancellations performed.
2.- The Agencies of Trips are adopting the decision of perform not the payments already hired in firm with Air Madrid
In final, before the procedure be resolved adminsitraivo of inspection, the Department and Promotion has obtained with its action to prevent of absolute form that Air Madrid can continue operand.
FIFTH.- Before these very serious facts Air Madrid has determined:
A) to Suspend its activity from today, as a result of the measures in fact adopted by the Department of Promotion, to whom is done exclusive and only head of this inescapable decision.
B) to Communicate to all its passengers and clients that the decision adopted obeys, of exclusive form, to the before aforesaid causes and that regrets deeply to have seen obliged to adopt it.
This very day, for the sake of avoiding damages to the passengers, relation of the same to the D.G.A.C has been facilitated., that should adopt the measures that consider convenient to repair to the same of the damages that with its conduct has caused them.
C) to Give instructions to their legal department to the effects that initiate all as many actions of administrative, civil, and penal nature be coming.