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Any foreign national can operate into the US and stay there for 29 days on his crew visa. If he is flying a foreign registered aircraft on a Hong Kong AOC he is based in Hong Kong. If the company gives him 28 days R and R in the US that does not constitute a basing. We got into this mess because we called the places of R and R 'bases' and then we compounded the problem by pretending that we could onshore a foreign entity involved in international travel.
CX should return to the position pre-2008. What they were doing was perfectly legal, although their expensive advisers seemed not to understand the legislation and gave appllingly bad advise. I would like to volunteer my services to CX as an adviser with a roaming brief. I would charge half the money and my advice would be no worse than that of their current internationally recognised advisers. CX should sue K....G for this mess.
Last edited by BIG MACH; 12th Feb 2011 at 15:30.