Africa-Press – Cape verde. At the time of a new departure for other flights, TACV will need more qualified people for another adventure in the sense of capitalizing on the taxpayers’ resources that have been drained by this company. New planes and the recovery of some certificates will be bets of a new mixed Board of Directors, with foreigners and local silver. The coming months promise news.
The current Board of Directors of TACV, chaired by Sara Pires, has its days numbered. The NATION knows that, in view of the new challenges, the Government is working to provide the national carrier with a management team, with signed parchments. It will be made up of foreign managers and national staff.
The change in TACV’s administration, according to a well-placed source, should take place within three months at the latest, coinciding with a possible change in the Government, after the MpD convention, scheduled for 26 May.
If it happens, such a move could contemplate the departure of Carlos Santos from the executive of Ulisses Correia e Silva. This newspaper knows that the Minister of Tourism and Transport, who lost responsibility for maritime transport to the Minister of the Sea, Abraão Vicente, is being pressured by his family to leave the Government.
two more boeings
The new administration will enter TACV at a turning point, with the airline being equipped with two Boeing 737 Max 8, two aircraft with modern technology, capable of guaranteeing the connection with the United States of America (USA) .
But, in order to fly to that country, the new management team will have to do a hard job in order to renew the ETOPS certificate and the FAR 129 certificate. -American (TSA, Boston and Providence airports).
And also to recover the IOSA certificate, which is why TACV will have to undergo an initial certification process. It should be noted that TACV is still banned from IATA, due to debts in Italy, France, Brazil, among others.
Faced with so many important challenges, the idea is that the next administration of TACV will have to be made up of people with knowledge of the aeronautical market and negotiation skills for the aforementioned problems, in addition to others, which the current management has been pushing with its belly.
Even internally, TACV has not been able to comply. At this time, you are at risk of not having your AOC (air operator certificate) renewed for a period of more than six months. Previously got a COC for 24 months.
In 2018, the company renewed the AOC for a period of 18 months, in 2019 for 24 months, returning to 12 months in 2022 due to various breaches and non-conformities, running the risk of the aircraft being “grounded” by the Civil Aviation Agency (AAC) ).
According to an expert, the Government, with the appointment of a new TACV Board of Directors, with a mixed team of foreigners and nationals, will intend to carry out a new restructuring, similar to what they intended with the Icelanders.
Return (discrete) to the domestic
Timidly, TACV is returning to the domestic market, given the inability of Best Fly to transport passengers from several islands in the country. The national carrier made a first test at Carnival, transporting passengers from Praia to São Vicente and vice versa, and this week, at the request of the Government, it made two flights. One for São Vicente and the other for Sal, in this case, to transport students who are participating in the School Games taking place in the city of Praia.
This “re-entry” into TACV in the domestic market with the Boeing 737 entails, however, extremely high operating costs. It was dictated by the fact that Best Fly has been operating for almost two months with just one ATR, as a plane from that company with Angolan capital is on the ground with a broken engine and another is in Toulouse, France, undergoing maintenance.
However, according to a source close to Best Fly, the situation of inter-island air transport will be normalized from April 7th with the arrival of the ATR which is in Toulouse. The entry into the fleet of an Embraer aircraft is also envisaged, which has been awaiting certification by the AAC for over a year, which for many is not justified.
However, with the fear of Best-Fly leaving the country as Binter did, there are those who defend that TACV should return to the domestic market, not only to guarantee a certain predictability, but also to break the private monopoly.
Our interlocutor recalls that Best Fly is doing business with Senegal, “with interests absolutely in conflict with ours, when it was supposed to transform Best Fly into a strategic partner, with a hub based in Cape Verde, with a view to the market of the sub-region”.
In other words, Best Fly “is collaborating with a main competitor”, since, “it has no obligation, taking into account that there is no agreement or any contract guaranteeing the connection of national lines”.
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