Equatorial Guinea airlines, Blacklisted

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EU Blacklist of Unsafe Airlines

“Flying Coffins” are banned from landing in Europe

In 2006, the European Union banned 92 airlines, the vast majority of them from Africa. Declared unsafe according to international standards, they are not permitted to land at European airports. The EU created the blacklist in response to several fatal airline

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Airlines added to list and date they were banned:

This year
Guinea Airways 5th March, 2007
General Work Aviacion 5th March, 2007

Last year
Getra 22nd March, 2006
Euroguineana De Aviacion 20th June, 2006
Utage (Union de Transport Aereo de Guinea Ecuatorial) 22nd March, 2006

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Air carriers from Equatorial Guinea
(26) The authorities of Equatorial Guinea have provided the Commission with an updated list of air carriers holding an Air Operator's Certificate. At present, the only air carriers certified in Equatorial Guinea are the following: Euroguineana de Aviacion y Transportes, General Work Aviacion, Guinea Airways, Guinea Equatorial de Transportes Aereos, Union de Transportes Aereos (UTAGE). Consequently, the Community list should be updated accordingly and these carriers should be included in Annex A.

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Does anyone have a list of aircraft operated by each company??

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President of Equatorial Guinea wants air links with Sao Tome and Principe [ 2007-05-30 ]

Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, 30 May – Sao Tome and Principe and Equatorial Guinea plan to set up an air carrier to carry out links between the capitals of the two countries, said the Guinean president, Teodoro Nguema, who ended a visit to Sao Tome Monday.

Nguema said that the agreement, due to be carried out this year, also included air links with some capitals of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CAEMC).

Founded in 1994, the CAEMC is a regional African organization made up of six Central African countries which have a single currency, the CFA Franc, namely, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.

Although Sao Tome is not a member of the CAEMC, the president of Equatorial Guinea called for a “profitable” business to be set up with the archipelago, based on flights from Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to Sao Tome.

“An agreement for the company to be profitable because we will need economic stability to also cover the CAEMC capital,” Nguema noted while encouraging Sao Tome and Principe to join the organization.

During his three-day visit to the Sao Tome capital, Nguema visited road rebuilding projects financed by Equatorial Guinea.

Just less than a month ago an Equatorial Guinea company presented a proposal to the Sao Tome government to build a new airport and oil port on the autonomous island of Principe, some 150 kilometers from Sao Tome. (macauhub)

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How the Authorities control worldwide airlines?
On December 7th 1944, 52 countries have endorsed the Chicago convention, and agreed to set up and applied a technical regulation based on the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) directives. The Chicago convention applied since April 4th 1947. All the organisations implied in the aviation safety are concerned: airlines, maintenance workshop, training school, crews …
Charter and regular airlines are controlled by the Civil Aviation Authority of the state where they have set their main base. Therefore, the National Authority of an airline is responsible for ensuring that its air carrier operators comply with the minimum safety oversight standards established by the ICAO. Only the National Authority of the airline has a global knowledge of the safety level of its airline, and can decide whether or not the airline is allowed to carry passengers. Then, it is the responsibility each country to ensure that every foreign airlines have been allowed to fly by their National Authority.

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In addition to the complete and systematic controls under the responsibility of the National Authority of the airline, the European states have set up a program called SAFA (Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft), which consists in performing punctual and unexpected controls. These controls do not replace the National Authority continuing oversight and surveillance, but ensure that the airlines comply with the international safety requirements. For example, aircraft documentation, crew licenses, flight deck and cabin safety systems, general aircraft aspect, cargo loading are verified. These controls are made in such a way that the aircraft is not delayed. Consequently, depending on the timeframe available during the aircraft stop, these controls can be extensive enough to definitely ensure that the aircraft is safe, or too short and allow an unsafe airline to be undetected.
Following a control, the airline can be requested to correct a deviation before the next take-off. Its National Authority can be warned. In the worst case, in case of a serious deviation, an airline can be banned from a country until it has demonstrated compliance with the international safety standards. The purpose of these controls is to set an additional surveillance of the foreign airlines, and that all foreign airlines know that they can be controlled and sanctioned anythime when they land in Europe. All these controls are carried out by dedicated teams.

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A National Authority is in charge of the continuing oversight and surveillance of the national airlines. An air transportation certificate (or an equivalent document) is issued by the National Authority for an airline when it has been demonstrated that the airline complies with the safety standards requested by the international current regulation.
This certificate is given to foreign airlines by their own Authority. Others Authorities have only few pieces of information about foreign airlines. Data comes from the ground control performed in the frame of the SAFA program. Moreover, thanks to the SAFA program, a European National Authority has access to the ground control performed by the others European National Authorities. But these controls are not enough for a complete evaluation of the safety level of an airline.
Therefore, the European countries worked together in order to establish a European black list. This list informs the passengers of the airlines whose safety level has been judged unsatisfactory by the European Authorities.
The regulation dealing with this blacklist is available at the following URL:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_344/l_34420051227en00150022.pdf (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_344/l_34420051227en00150022.pdf)

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Igor Celotti owner and President of General Work found dead near Niefang after crash in small Ultra light

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Is GWA still operating after Mr Celotti's death??? If so how long will this company operate for????

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Company to be run by Obiang wife and his son Theodorin, reported in Italian newspapers