ECA temporarily suspends operations

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Croatian-based European Coastal Airlines (ECA), Europe’s only scheduled seaplane service, has temporarily suspended operations after local media reported of the carrier's alleged poor safety practices and maintenance procedures. Following an article published by the popular Croatian web portal "Index.hr", the airline terminated all operations as of today and has suspended bookings on its website over the next four days. In a message published by the "Total Croatia News" portal, ECA CEO, Klaus Dieter Martin, said, "Currently, European Coastal Airlines has paused its flight operations for a few days. This is related to the fact that additional administrative tasks requested by the CCAA (Croatian Civil Aviation Authority) have to be fulfilled. ECA is summarising the requested paperwork in the shortest period of time and is expecting to proceed with flight operations as soon as the middle of next week". The company has accused disgruntled former employees of spreading false information of the airline's safety and maintenance procedures. "Naturally and thankfully, the CCAA has been at an audit and will proceed auditing our efforts. We highly appreciate this, as our utmost priority is the safety of our passengers. For this reason we have for the time being discontinued our flight operations. We are happy to prove our ability to operate safely, reliably and comfortably at competitive pricing, once the last single doubt in regards to the quality of our work has been eliminated", Mr Martin concluded.

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  1. Anonymous22:38

    Nothing more permanent than the temporary...

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  2. Anonymous09:18

    has anyone/ admin got more information on this, as I have tickets booked with them early September, what's the inside story!! thanks

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    1. I could be wrong but the way I understood it from reading the Index.hr article is that they have had their operators certificate temporarily suspended pending am Audit by the Croatia Civil Aviation Authority which is currently underway so I don't think it was a "voluntary suspension".

      Most of the concerns relate to corroded control cables which some pilots and technicians from the company itself claim are close to braking point but the company wont replace and is fudging the paper work as a result.

      The company CEO says that it is some disgruntled former employers causing trouble and making it up.

      We will know by Wednesday who is correct if ECA start operations again.

      Some links, the first one includes photo's of some of the concerns, the last link has the full statement from the ECA CEO:

      http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/foto-index-otkriva-opasne-propuste-zaustavite-hidroavione-prije-nego-netko-pogine/912419.aspx

      http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/nakon-istrage-indexa-hidroavionima-zabranjeni-letovi/912580.aspx

      https://www.total-croatia-news.com/item/13579-seaplane-ceo-klaus-dieter-martin-responds-to-croatian-media-criticism

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    2. Anonymous00:00

      Same is wit Air Pink which has support of Serbian authorities and polititians

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