Guadeloupe’s Air Antilles resumes commercial flight ops

Air Antilles (3S, Pointe à Pitre) has resumed commercial flight operations after a follow-up audit by the French civil aviation authority (Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile – DGAC) showed the carrier’s safety and maintenance oversight to be in compliance with regulations.

As previously reported, the Guadeloupe-based operator was grounded on Friday, August 24, after the French civil aviation safety regulator (Organisme pour la Sécurité de l’Aviation Civile – OSAC) suspended its CAMO (continuing airworthiness management organisation) certificate citing lapses in several areas of oversight and record keeping. Air Antilles was then given the opportunity to explain itself to the regulatory body pending more severe sanctions.

“The administrative checks carried out by the DGAC did not reveal any failure, whether in terms of compliance with regulations or maintenance of the fleet,” Air Antilles said in a statement. “The answers given to the DGAC by our company on the evolution of the procedures which are applied in our airworthiness monitoring department were found to be in compliance with the regulations in effect.”

As such, the airline resumed commercial flights on August 31 with services to Fort de France, St. Martin, and Santo Domingo Las Américas.