Premier Has 1st Russian Meeting, 6 More Tues
Premier Dr Ewart Brown and the Bermuda Director of Civil Aviation met today [May 10] with officials from Bureau Veritas [BV] in Moscow, Russia and have six more meetings scheduled for tomorrow.
The Director of Civil Aviation in Bermuda, Thomas Dunstan, has a degree in Aviation Management and is a qualified FAA Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor. He was the first Bermudian to attain a Diploma in Airport Management from IATA’s Aviation Training and Development Institute.
BV is a global organization which is contracted by Bermuda’s Department of Civil Aviation to conduct airworthiness oversight of Bermuda registered aircraft operating in Russia as well as aircraft maintenance facilities.
The photo below shows Aeronautic & Space Division Project Managers Mounir Ben Mansour and Georges Schmuck, as well as Premier Brown and Mr Dunstan:
The Premier said:
My meeting with our Director and our Russian associates went very well. We are prepared to meet with Russian Government officials and aviation executives in six separate meetings on Tuesday. We are doing everything we can to strengthen our aircraft register and avoid a takeover by the UK.
The meeting provided the Premier an opportunity to get an update on the Russian aviation market in preparation for his meetings with several airlines and the Russian Civil Aviation Authority.
As revealed in a press conference last week, the UK Government has questioned the Aircraft Registry of Bermuda particularly in relation to Russian aircraft, saying “Bermuda is conducting a revenue raising business” and that they “would find it hard to accept the ongoing operation of the register in its current form at all.”
There has been no specific reason why the UK Government has taken a specific interest in Bermuda’s Aircraft Registry, however speculation has arisen it may be due to liability issues. There has been at least one instance of a Bermuda-registered Russian-operated airline crashing, in which all 88 passengers died. Numerous other Bermuda-registered aircraft have made thousands of flights for decades without incident.
The aircraft registry has existed for many decades, and generates millions of dollars annually for the Bermuda Government.
That would make a good caption contest Bernews. I see the dark jacket on the back of of ‘couch’. Wonder who that belongs too/two/to
Your contacts are great and I look forward to/too/two you informing us whom they are.
Must admit, that a first without the pink tie but thenagain, when in russia…….
E-Wart taking his farewell tour on the taxpayer I see