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Old 24th Dec 2014, 06:05
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Soteria
 
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Hate to intrude, but if Skytrans was to remain Skytrans and the only change was for new owners to buy it, the AOC remains intact, and yes in that sense it is worth something. However if Skytrans shut down as an airline today, and they wanted to reopen tomorrow under a new name etc, they would need to apply for a new AOC as the current one would be issued to Skytrans (or whatever entity they use), not the new one. The old AOC becomes worthless and null and void along with the old company. I have heard all the rumours before about airiness selling AOC's etc, but that is complete bollocks. An AOC can't be passed and traded around like a $5 note.

On a side point, interesting comments by Pith (not sure how they are defamatory though as every Qantas thread contains much worse) as I have also heard that they are keeping aircraft spares in a shed off site, which is very interesting. I drove to Port Douglas this morning and I noticed the hangar sure does look empty.
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