The FAA suspended AMI Jet Charter’s Part 135 certificate yesterday on an emergency basis, citing many problems with the Burlingame, Calif. charter firm’s operational control of its charter flights. AMI Jet Charter is partially owned by TAG Aviation USA, which brokers charters to AMI Jet Charter and other charter operators on behalf of its management customers. Forty-eight of TAG’s 120 managed aircraft are on AMI Jet’s charter certificate, and these airplanes and 30 additional AMI charter aircraft are not able to fly charters while this suspension is in effect.
The emergency suspension order lists multiple violations of FAA regulations, including: AMI has failed to adequately determine flight- and duty-time limitations and rest requirements before a crewmember is assigned a Part 135 flight; people not authorized by AMI’s operations specifications have been designating the pilot-in-command and, when required, the second-in-command for Part 135 flights; and people not designated and authorized by AMI’s operations specifications have been actually exercising operational control over Part 135 operations.
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