The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has recently released a travel warning to travelers. Because of safety concerns, passengers are advised against flying with InselAir.
On March 1, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has updated its travel advisory to all countries served by InselAir. The travel advisory includes the USA, Jamaica, Haiti, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago. According to the FCO, the US and Netherlands authorities have prohibited their staff from using the airline while safety checks are being carried out. The same is told to UK government officials as a precaution.
InselAir is a Curacao-based airline operating 70 flights a day to 26 destinations. It is one of the largest airlines in the Caribbean and carried around 1.4 million passengers in 2016. The majority of these are in the Caribbean, but, it also flies to Miami, several airports in South America, Caracas, and Medellin, reported Express.
In a report by The Sun, a spokesperson for InselAir said that the Dutch Civil Aviation Inspectorate has recently paid a visit to Aruba and Curacao and met with the representatives of both InselAir Curacao and InselAir Aruba airlines. The team requested to perform spontaneous audits to which both airlines had no complaints. The spokesperson added that both airlines remain until now uninformed of the result of the previously conducted inspection from the Dutch Civil Aviation Inspectorate.
According to an InselAir spokesperson, they were satisfied with the conclusion of the findings in all of the areas including Operation Control Center, Flight Operations, Safety and Security, and Quality and Maintenance to name a few of InselAir Curacao. At present, neither of the airlines have major unresolved technical and operational findings with their respective Aviation Authority.
The spokesperson continued to say that the ongoing grounding of the InselAir fleet in Aruba is because of a position was taken by the Aviation Authority of Aruba in support of the government of the said country. It was recently reported that the government wanted to freeze the bank account of the airline due to arrears in payment of taxes.
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