The Ministry of Infrastructure and the State Aviation Service have suspended the Air Operator’s Certificate of the Air Onix airline company (Simferopol), the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure has announced. The agencies made this relevant decision based on the outcome of a meeting of the commission for certification of air transport operators.
The airline company ordered to submit to the commission within a month financial statements and a detailed plan for resolving the situation, including a timetable for paying its debt to its partners and a plan for resuming flights.
It was also decided that the State Aviation Service would perform an unscheduled audit of the company for financial solvency in January. The issue of whether to restore the certificate or revoke it and strip the company of all the right to operate airlines will be considered after studying the relevant materials.
As reported, Air Onix asked the State Aviation Service to suspend all its flights for the next few months. The airline company plans to resume flights in the spring. The airline company suspended flights on December 11 because of, among other things, its debt to airport ground handling companies.
The Air Onix airline company was founded in 2007. It performed its first flight on April 28, 2012. It is based at the Simferopol international airport. In the autumn, the airline company returned one Boeing 737-500 to the leasing company, with three aircraft (one Boeing 737-300, one Boeing 737-400, and one Boeing 737-500) remaining in its fleet. The airline company also said that it intended to add three airliners (a Boeing 737-400, a Boeing 737-300, and a Boeing 737-800) to its fleet for the 2014 summer season. At the same time, the total number of its aircraft will increase by only one because two Boeing 737-500 airplanes will be removed from the fleet.
