ACMI or not, Northeast IS STILL RESPONSIBLE
B767 Longhaul........
You are absolutely right. There are two separate issues regarding Northeast here. However, Northeast still holds the AOC and IS therefore responsible for it's use. It's rather like loaning your car to someone. Would you loan it to a drunk? of course not, if you did you would be held jointly responsible for it's abuse, and rightly so.
Northeast did not loan their AOC (and name) for free to this fellow Anwar Kadri, they were PAID for it's use. They are part responsible for it's abuse.
If you are a ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, Insurance) operator, you are still responsible for the payment of salary, and welfare of the flight and cabin crew unless you have a contract that states otherwise.
NORTHEAST WERE/ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREW. Payment of salary, tickets home, welfare * Read their original advertisement on ClimbTo350*
I remind everyone that despite the pleading and crocodile tears from the Northeast owners that they are not responsible because THEY did not get paid by the company that retained them to fly the Hajj, Northeast are still responsible to pay the crew salary and their welfare. The businees contracts of third parties is NOT the crews responsibility or problem at all. The fact that Northeast did not get paid is irrelivant. The flight crew were hired to fly the aircraft. The girls, to work in the cabin. Presumably, the management at Northeast were hired to run the airline, a task they have failed to do miserably.
Their Tristar, 3D-NEC, remains impounded in Burkina Faso.
Cabin crew are abandoned in Burkina Faso.
No crew member has been paid their full salary in 3 months.
An owner was prevented from leaving Jeddah after flight and cabin crew left.
Threatening emails are being sent to certain individuals simlpy because they tell the truth about these shysters (there is plenty of evidence to support anything said or written).
Real airplanes take real money to operate. You cannot run an airline on PROMISES, POSSIBLE investors and POSSIBLE future business. It takes hard cash, and strong managment, if you do not have at least those two basics, you have no business operating (or trying to operate) an airline.
The owners at Northeast rushed blindly into the Hajj hoping to make some fast money. They got their fingers burned and are not now willing to accept responsibility for their mismanagement andlack of foresight when dealing with certain third world countries.
Instead of getting their people home FIRST, they are using what little money they have to hire "attorneys" in Burkina Faso.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY NORTHEAST...........