AirExplore (ED, Bratislava) has been granted a tentative and conditional US Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP) and an exemption nearly nine years after the airline filed its application in October 2015. The permit will be restricted until Slovakia obtains an FAA IASA Category 1 assessment.
Until the country is audited by the FAA, AirExplore will only be able to serve the US through wet-lease arrangements with duly certified carriers from Category 1 countries. The airline voluntarily offered to “accept economic authority limited to…
Source: ch aviation
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