Despite U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) assurances that it would streamline the process to allow European charter operators to fly into the U.S., the procedure is still difficult, say operators.
Although U.S. regulators are simplifying the rules governing private flight for hire (Part 375), U.S. rules remain the most restrictive in the world, according to Dannys Famin, Unijet’s CEO and a governor in the European Business Aviation Association. “Things are starting to move, but my transatlantic business is still at a very low level, and I cannot expand it,” Famin told AIN. NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen made a similar statement at EBACE, noting that the U.S. “should get its house in order”
in terms of access from abroad. “When we [Americans] face similar requirements in emerging countries, we find it unacceptable,” he commented.
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