Overflight Clearances - How do the agencies do it?
To all the professional ops bods.
OK a new start up biz jet company has AFTN access and CAP 555 contacts and wants to do all the overflight clearances in house, it gets 12 hours notice to overfly various sub-Saharan African countries. What do you do??
The obvious answer is you go to the agents like Jetex, UAS or Hadid and others, they seem to be able to get these permits within two hours at times, if the start up company tried it probably wouldn't even be able to talk to anyone at the CAA departments and no way get a reply on AFTN!
So my question to those in the know is, how DO the agencies get the permits at short notice? Is it contacts within that none of us have?
It would be really interesting to know how they get it done when others simply cannot
Really appreciate your answers, been in the biz twenty years and this knowledge has evaded me all this time so come on put me out of my misery, what's the secret?
Regards