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 Travel & Outdoors | April 2006 
Reports: Mexican Authorities Shut Down Aerocalifornia for Lack of Security
 Associated Press
| | Passengers of the Mexican airline Aerocalifornia await news from an airline official in a downtown office in Mexico City, Mexico, Monday, April 3, 2006. Mexican aviation officials suspended operations Sunday at Aerocalifornia after determining that the low-cost carrier failed to meet safety standards. (AP/Gregory Bull) |
Mexico City Mexico's federal aviation department has suspended operations at Aerocalifornia after determining that the low-cost carrier failed to meet adequate safety standards, Mexican news media reported Monday.
The Civil Aviation Department announced the closure in a news release, Mexican television stations and newspapers reported.
The aviation authority is obligated to suspend Aerocalifornia's operations because it has determined that this airline no longer guarantees that operations meet safety standards, the department said.
The suspension follows several inspections by federal authorities beginning more than a year ago, when the airline was instructed to make a series of changes to improve operations.
One of the subsequent inspections showed that the airline had one-third of its fleet grounded and was taking parts from the decommissioned airplanes to keep others operating, the department said in a news release, according to the reports.
The federal agency reportedly has given the airline an unspecified amount of time to correct problems in order to restart operations.
Aerocalifornia was one of several low-cost airlines to emerge in recent years, offering passengers cheaper alternatives to the country's dominant Aeromexico and Mexicana carriers. |
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