AvA Airways (Sint Maarten) (St. Maarten) has secured a Certificate of Economic Authority (CEA) from the government of St. Maarten ahead of plans to begin certification.
The move marks the first positive step towards an eventual launch for the AVA Airways' team, which is headed by Vice President and Chairman, Olivier Arrindell.
The start-up had originally planned to use Jamaica as a base through its Ava Transportation (Kingston Norman Manley) vehicle but eventually settled on Curaçao. But, when repeat attempts to gain a CEA from the Curaçaoan Ministry of Traffic, Transportation and Urban Planning came to naught, AVA then shifted its attention to St. Maarten.
According to its original plan, AVA Airways intends to operate a fleet of A319/A320 jets on regular passenger flights throughout the Caribbean as well as to mainland Latin America.
