Charter & Fractional
With urging of NBAA, U.S. eases rules for foreign charter operators
The U.S.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has moved to ease restrictions on access to U.S. skies for foreign charter operators. It will increase to 12 (from six) the number of flights any one operator can make per year into the country before having to apply for a Part 129 foreign carrier certificate, and address applications on an ad hoc basis pending a permanent rule change that could take another two years to implement.

The compromise, brokered by NBAA, has prompted European officials to press ahead with plans to introduce new private operating rules for fractional ownership companies. These would be similar to the U.S. Part 91 Subpart K rules and are now being drafted by a working group of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) for eventual adoption by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

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