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When considering operations to a foreign destination you've never flown to before, what sort of regulatory approvals and permissions are required?
eg If my AOC allows conduct of Dual CAT III, does that domestic approval carry weight with the the foreign county or do I need to apply to them for that permission?
For our particular ops (non-scheduled) we need to apply to the destination country for approval.
However, this may well not be the case for a normal scheduled carrier today...as it was many years ago, when CATIII prior approval was needed.
OzExpat
27th Aug 2009, 12:07
As you're talking about your company's AOC, you're obviously talking about undertaking commercial air operations. Every country will have it's own rules about that, primarily aimed at protection of their own air carriers. If your "new country" is an ICAO contracting State, it will have rules that are based on both the ICAO SARPs and international agreements.
In most cases, this will mean that a certain number of those operations will be tolerated, where passenger carriage is involved - cargo operations that are solely for cargo are generally not so heavily restricted. Your company should have researched the rules in a new country well before undertaking ANY sort of operation, to ensure that they don't step on any toes.
Every so-called "new country" might well have slightly different rules so it's well for the company to liaise with the regulator in that new country first. Some are flexible, due to international agreements, some are not.