KS Avia, non payers

[transilvana]

Anyone interested on working with this company, watch out, non payers, they are looking for LR 60 crews, contact me if you need further info.

[smithLR60]

Dear College,
I will appreciate for any information about KSavia. They offer me a job as LJ60 Captain and I want to know how they are reliable.
Best regards

[NuName]

If you want to know if they are reliable READ the previous post, they even invited you to make contact if you want more info. :ugh:

[Captain Kaboom]

Don't they operate illegal charters with airplanes registred in the Isle of Man?

They have been looking for a while and are raising their offers, can't find pilots.
The word must be out it is a dodgy outfit.

[kostia]

Careful,
very bad reputation at the moment. Paiements and conditions most likely unsure.
:E

[transilvana]

Well, I´ll wait for them when they finish their investigation, then I´ll get all the info I have to all CAA´s around europe and report to all pilots flying illegal charters for them, so Mr Vodka, are you one of them?

[Iceman666]

How do you know they are flying illegal charter?

[Captain Kaboom]

Iceman666

How do you know they are flying illegal charter?

By definition the Isle of Man registry, M, is for private owners only, therefore no AOC and commercial intentions if on the Manx registry.

But they seem to sell trips.

How this normally goes is that pax are friends of the owners, those owners must have a lot of friends since there would be different friends on every flight...:eek:

CK

[Iceman666]

They seem to sell trips....hmmmm.

So you actually don't know....

I hear over and over again how it is much cheaper to operate an airplane on an AOC, which would also give the right to sell flights. So why would an owner of an airplane not put it on an AOC if he wants to sell flights on it ????

[NuName]

"I hear over and over again how it is much cheaper to operate an airplane on an AOC"

I would really love to know how its done, can you elaborate for us?

[B200Drvr]

European fuel tax is one way, you don't pay it if you are on an AOC, in Switzerland and Italy at least, and it is almost 99% tax!!!!

[Iceman666]

I would really love to know how its done, can you elaborate for us?

Not really sure what you want me to elaborate...

I suppose my choice of word (how) was a bit bad, since I haven't actually been told HOW it's done rather that it IS much cheaper, on fuel particularly.

Having been in private operations for some time now and having been informed by the owners of those airplanes that they get the VAT, on fuel etc, refunded, since they use their aircraft as a corporate tool, I have a hard time figuring out where the AOC guys save all those money they so claim....

[transilvana]

Ok guys, looks like vodka drivers don´t like their partners to be pushed around. Anyhow, this comes directly from Latvian CAA, I requested it months ago

Dear Mr XXXXX,

KS Avia is not a Commercial Air Transport operator.

Best regards,

Edgars Gindra
Head of Aircraft Operations Division
Civil Aviation Agency of Latvia
Tel: +371 67 830 970
Fax: +371 67 507 910
E-mail: [email protected]

On the other hand they offer charter flights on their website

K.S. Avia — Sky camel charter (http://www.ksavia.lv/en/charters)

Do you recognize the aircrafts?

[Tiago Cotrim]

Dear vodka_gorbachev

Did you like flying there?

Best Regards

Tiago Cotrim