Air Madagascar: sanction against the arcrafts´ poorly maintained estate and not against the company

The planes used by the Air Madagascar airline company failed at the audit test imposed by the EAAS. The couple of Boeing 767-300 is not fulfilling the European security standards. The Malagasy national airline company used a long time ago to be an example in terms of air security standard respect. 

This suspension was the response to a recently recorded row of incidents: A shock with an escalator, a bursting tire, oil leaks, largely enough to be banned from flying over Europe. 

The Malagasy counterpart accepted the EAAS. Minister Benjamina Ramanantsoa outlined that both concerned aircrafts are still allowed to fly towards Asia and Africa. “we are expecting for the default specification “, he declared. 

The Air Madagascar airline company” is fully responsible for its passengers´ security, security is a central issue”. The company may remain grateful that its expertise and its reputation have been in a certain extent spared by critics against both 20 years old Boeing 767´s estate. 

The ministry of transportation is expecting to settle the issue quickly. The EAAS will be told by the Air Madagascar airline company when and if both concerned aircrafts are bound to face up to the next tests.  The ruling power is pulling satisfaction from the fact that the ban would be merely temporary, and expecting the Air Madagascar airline company to get a move on and patch its aircrafts up 

Such a flying is obviously a cause for concerns for the Air Madagascar airline company .  “Could the company have replaced both of these aircrafts, flights wouldn´t have suffered any change”, said the HAT´s Transportation minister. But the company´s fleet is actually restricted. “We planned short term measures in order not to jeopardize the incoming flow of tourists “, added Benjamina Ramanantsoa. 

Three solutions have immediately been addressed: renting a Boeing 767-300 from Alitalia and an Airbus 330 from the company Atlas Jet during only three months, since the authorities are expecting to recover both banned aircrafts quickly. Bilateral cooperation between the Turkish government and the HAT could start up another solution from Turkish Airline. 

The situation is told by the HAT´s minister in charge of tourism to be kept by the ruling power under control. “The crisis currently engulfing the Air Madagascar airline company will not have any impact on the flow of tourists”, promised Riana Andriamandavy. In any case, the company´s passengers quickly had a taste of the enforced changes: non repatriated tourists, booking cancelations, trip postponements… a blow for Air Madagascar´s picture. And still, the company will have to keep on renting both of these poorly repaired aircrafts while they are not flying to Europe.