Midex 747

[Mariner]

I see their A/C in SHj all the time. 2 or 3 742's, and some A300's.
Mainly flying roundtrips to Afganistan.
The 74's also fly to Europe (AMS) and Africa, an engineer said.

[ErwinS]

They do not fly to AMS. Only a 2 charters some months ago and for maintenance they visited KLM. There is no regular service by MidEx...........

[3pointlanding]

Do you really want to work for a company with suspect maintenance? They were audited by a major carrier (mine) for possible charter work and were dropped like a hot rock, all over maintenance. Ask them if they have passed an IOSA audit. I doubt it.

[CargoOne]

3pointlanding

Ask them if they have passed an IOSA audit. I doubt it.

It is not uncommon that all-cargo carriers are not going for IOSA audit, as this is a purely commerical excersize invented by IATA.

As an example I don't think that Air Contractors or EAT are IOSA. Same time, PIA, Sundan Airways, Yemenia and numerous others have passed IOSA. So what? (This have nothing to do with Midex, only to point ref IOSA).

[ErwinS]

IOSA is not for cargo airlines yet. Only pax. So MidEx have nothing to do with IOSA, same as all other cargo airlines.

[WhaleDriver]

Interesting....since I know Atlas and Polar are IOSA certified. In fact, Atlas did it's two year review/renewal earlier this year.

[CargoOne]

Atlas, Polar, FedEx, Cargolux, ABX, DHL Air, LH Cargo, MNG, TNT, UPS etc are IOSA.

But IOSA certificate has nothing to do with the real safety & quality level, and absense of IOSA more often reflects unwillingness to spend money for another piece of IATA paper. Too many airlines realized that, IATA started to invent more rules around it, setting IOSA as a requirement for codeshares and interlines, so those who involved in scheduled business of a certain scale have not much choice any longer.

[ErwinS]

Well my bad then. At my current CT training I was told that our Cargo division doesn't have IOSA because it isn't valid for cargo ops. Only our pax div has IOSA certification.