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Old 2nd Nov 2013, 06:36
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Foxcotte
 
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Lets put some facts on this ...there are only about ten C210s in total in Kenya. Most are in private hands, the only commercial ones are operated by EAAC, AimAir and BushAir who are a new operation and have acquired two. No one else has more than one. More or less same story for C206s.

And where is the first officer going to log time? In the right seat of a 6 seater? And then there is the issue of license and work permit. The immigration department is kind of on shut down and not issuing work permits to foreigners unless you can prove it is a job a Kenyan can't do. And every 250 hour new commercial pilot here emerges from our training system with a Caravan rating even if they have barely flown solo. And there are dozen of these guys each week.

And scheduled services are already criss crossing the country to all main destinations chasing an increasingly flooded cheap ticket price market. Really don't see there is space for another new operator.

Lastly I just don't get what this scam is trying to achieve? It's so transparent and I can't see where they are going to make any money out of it.
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