Spanish airline companies: connected/ unconnected/ disconnected ?
The plot thickens.
My latest take is that
Air Lada is just another name for L A de A.
Flysur is/ was another name for the same thing.
TAER Andalus likewise.
So we have 4 names at least in the pot, as above.
But then these all connect to Top Fly a flying school based in Sabadell, just outside Barcelona (also in Huesca though now closed there) which was founded in 1991, which hit major financial problems early in 2011, whose employees struck over non-payment of wages, which was bought out by a Dutch company who relaunched the venture on 12th Feb under the same name (!) but which has now hit even graver financial troubles and has had its premises sealed by the Guardia Civil on May 7th due to a failure to meet its commitments either to the Spanish taxman or to the Spanish National Insurance office leaving 60 students on the ground.
And where did the the Spanish pilot who was in charge of this flight live?
You got it in one. Sabadell !
And where did he train ?
Right first time !
Not a very pretty picture, for in addition to the solid smokescreen of different names, the 4 identical companies named above are owned mainly by building companies trying to diversify out of the Spanish housing bubble. Which does not exactly inspire confidence in their likely interest in the finer points of airline procedures. Well not in me !