ArmInfo. The General Directorate of Civil Aviation (GUGA) of Armenia denies information about the deprivation of its license.
So, in the message of the State Administration of Civil Aviation received in ArmInfo, it is noted that Armenia is a sovereign state, and any structure cannot deprive the state structure functioning according to Armenian legislation of fulfilling its powers.
The ministry reminded that between February 3 and 7, experts from the EU and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) made an evaluation visit to two small Armenian airlines (Armenia Aircompany and Atlantis European Airlines) and to the GDCA itself.
"On March 6, preliminary evaluation results were received from EASA and the agency expects to receive the opinion of the GDCA, after which the final report on Armenia will be released. Thus, the observations made by the EASA will be sent to the Committee on April 6," the GDCA emphasized, this recalling that on May 12-14 in Brussels are scheduled hearings to which representatives of the Committee are invited.
At the same time, the State Administration of Civil Aviation recognized that the Committee actually had serious problems, which were repeatedly mentioned, and which did not arise yesterday, and it takes a lot of time to completely modernize the structure, and radical steps are already being taken in this direction. Touching on airlines that temporarily lost their license to fly to EU countries, the State Administration of State Administration stated that this is a temporary measure and this decision does not in any way apply to flights to other countries, as well as flights operated by other international airlines.
Earlier, information was circulated in a number of Armenian media that the international aviation organization revoked the license of the State Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia, which could have very dire consequences for all civil aviation in Armenia, in particular, for pilots who could simply be forbidden to board the helm. According to publications, we are talking about the actual deprivation of a license. First of all, the young head of the State University of Civil Aviation Tatevik Revazyan, a man in the aviation field, was not experienced.
According to experts, in fact, the unpleasant story with the GDCA is not new. It was the logical result of the successive collapse of the aviation industry, which began more than 15 years ago with the "collapse" of the national airline ArmAvia and the beginning of the "open skies" concept, in which the state refused to support local small airlines and refused to recreate its Armenian national carrier.