Kitoro Kid
What you get for your money is a DC10, as you say, in need of a C check.
What you also get is an EASA145 approved maintenance facility in the UK, associated tooling and equipment and a very large DC10 spares holding and all the staff.
Flight crew, operations, engineers etc are all still on the payroll. Nobody has yet been made redundant.

Twitcher
 

All said and done ,who is the new owner of DAS AIR CARGO
Interesting what you are saying but , that is in the UK
Operations / cheif Pilot / etc
What about the guys who made the Airline Work !!!!!!!!!!!!

Twicthcer ,kitoro Kid
 

what is a long running battle is that JCR ,had big problems when MRS JCR
started AFRICA ONE , CAPT JCR tried to overcome that Big mistake ,


Yes Das Air got by ,but a huge dent in the outcome of what was right what was wrong ,

All i will say is the Guys who operated the DC-10'S for Das are the best in the World

VERY , VERY GOOD GUYS !!!!!!!!!

another delay.....
 

It seems they are still not ready to release the info to everyone :eek:
So, you now have a few more days to make guesses. Anybody got any ideas other than Avient?

Avient doesn't really make sense does it? They appear to have done pretty well so far already from the demise of DAS, why spend millions when they don't have to? Unless the EASA145 facility is extraordinarily attractive. My guess is that it is somebody nobody has thought of in this context. There are vague whisperings about Nigeria from some quarters.

well lets hope that the possible new owners were not banking on getting the commonwealth games as part of the plans as a possible start, thats if they are from nigeria...!!!!!!

Perhaps its Arik - just a thought.......

... and Afrijet is coming up on the inside rail.

yes, but what about their tie up with mk cargo that seems abit silly as they are big buddies in nigeria (lagos)..still we shall see....

MK etc
 

As well as being an EASA approved maintenance hangar, it is also has approval as a line station. Ideal for MK who are currently using Manston daily and are currently almost non existent at Ostend :}
all speculation of course.....maybe an announcement tomorrow....they keep saying that though :ugh:

almost there..
 

The staff got the info today on who it is and what is going to happen :) Hopefully the news will be freely available by the end of the week to everyone else.

So then looks like we will be back at work soon then twitcher!! Be good to get back in the hanger.

seems that afri-jet, the pax charter company has bought das and intend to use the hanger at manston as thier uk base.

That will be these then.
http://www.afrijet.com/fleet/fleet.htm
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David

fleet maintenance at MSE
 

I'd look more at the passenger fleet, both current and future, as opposed to the freighter fleet ;-)
However, still no official announcement yet....

I asked this question over on the Manston thread but it's probably more appropriate asking it here and if I'm lucky I might get an answer. According to Jes: "They are buying the whole airline, and intend to run the hangar as a separate profit centre." So does that mean they will be carrying out maintenance work for other airlines as well as their own?

well, still waiting for the offical verdict, but they still hve afrijet as the front runner, alot of people still tight lipped, not letting much slip....:=

Official Announcement
 

Date: 20 November 2007, London:
Andrew Duncan and Andrew Stoneman, partners and Joint Administrators from Menzies Corporate Restructuring (MCR), announce today the sale of the business and assets of DAS Air to Continental Aviation Services (Nig) Limited (CAS). The liabilities of the Company remain with DAS Air Limited (In Administration). The Company, a long established UK based air freight services business operating routes between Europe and West Africa and between East Africa and the Middle East had ceased operations following the appointment of administrators on 17 September 2007. The sale of the business should allow operations to recommence in the short term and preserves the jobs of 34 staff, who work at the Company’s sites in Crawley and Manston. Andrew Duncan comments, “We’re pleased that the sale of the business represents the preservation of a long established African all cargo airline. It’s also good to note that of all the offers we received for the business from interested parties, CAS had the best funding package to acquire the business but also to fund investment and its future working capital requirements. I believe that this gives the business a very real chance to thrive and succeed, going forward.” Vitalis Ibe of CAS commented, “We are very excited with the opportunity to acquire this business and Charles Goodrich has been appointed as the CEO. We are looking forward to building a brand new vibrant cargo airline and maintenance facility”.

Good Luck Boys
 

Continental is part of Afrijet.

Vitalis Ibe used to be the BA Cargo Manager in Lagos.

Good luck to him, Berry, Dr D and the rest of the gang

crew for DC10
 

when will hiring begin for new crew for DC10